Handicraft trade fair

A handicraft and small industrial products trade fair organised by the Rural Industries and Self-employment Promotion Ministry to coincide with the Ratnapura Maha Saman Devalaya Esala festival season will be opened by Minister S.B. Nawinna at the vehicle park premises adjoining the Ratnapura Municipal Council building tomorrow at 5 p.m. The trade fair will continue daily until July 19.

The trade fair is organised in collaboration with the National Crafts Council (NCC), Industrial Development Board (IDB) National Design Centre and the Handicraft Board to promote marketing opportunities for the products of handicraft artistes and small industrialists and induce consumers to purchase indigenous crafts products directly from the producers.

Buyers visiting this fair will be able to purchase handicrafts and small industrial product, at an affordable price and place orders for fresh stocks with these producers.