Wonders with wood

The moment you stepped into the Eastern Commander's office at Welikanda, you will be completely lost with its new facelift. It is really a showpiece which depicts the humanity and the creativity in young men who are in uniforms... It is a showpiece that proves the in-born talents and patience in men who are in iron boots... Above all it bears a testimony to the awareness of the heart beats of another human being though he is trained to be a soldier.

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Nutritious food supplements through local crops

Boost to agriculture sector:

However, unlike the paddy farmers who swallowed weedicide as they were unable to sell the bounty harvest, these farmers supply their harvest to a Sri Lankan food processing company with which they have entered into contracts. The Sri Lankan owned concern was born out from an agricultural project launched by Plenty Canada with financial aid of Canadian International Development Agency in 1987 with the objective of helping the farmers in the dry zone to cultivate Soya Beans.

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Down by the River K

In villages like Paravalathanna and Kitulgala, alongside the Kelani River, it doesn't matter whether your mobile phone has a camera in it or how much sugar you take with your cup of tea. All that counts is how many bottles of kitul treacle you can make on an evening, and how much the canoe man would charge to cross the river

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