Hybrid coconut saplings will be distributed

B. W. Eheliyagoda -Kegalle Spl. Cor.

Rural Development Ministry has made arrangements to distribute hybrid coconut saplings among rural communities in Kegalle district beginning from March 2011. The plan is to distribute one million coconut saplings through the district agriculture committees of the respective areas.

Coconut fertilizer too, would be provided to interested cultivators of these hybrid coconut seedlings at a subsidised rate.

Those intended cultivators both minor and major are kindly requested to make their applications to coconut development board office in Kegalle district indicating the number of coconut seedlings required by them for planting.

The distribution of fertilizer depends on the extent of the area to be brought under cultivation.

The home-garden cultivators are also entitled to receive these hybrid coconut seedlings the Sunday Observer learnt. This program is to be extended to other districts too by the coconut growing authority.