Dessford Estate marks Environment Day
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The schoolchildren with the plants |
Dessford Estate in Talawakele launched a tree planting program on
World Environment Day with two schools, Dessford Tamil MV and Abbotsford
TV.
The company distributed plants with timber value and fruits plants to
the children and each child who planted a tree was entrusted to look
after it until it grows and the process will be monitored to ensure the
sustainability of the program.
The chief guest was the Nuwara Eliya Zonal Director of Education.
Dessford estate is managed by Talawakele Plantation Company PLC and
the program was organised by Dessford Regional General Manager Nishantha
Abeysinghe.
Senior Assistant Managers W.K.R.D. de Silva, K.D. Manohar, staff and
schoolchildren were present. Manohar said that since the tea sector is
highly sensitive to changes in the environment the sector has a
responsibility to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change.
Planting trees and ensuring that they grow is important. This year
World Environment Day focused on rising sea levels and its impact on
small island states which is directly relevant to Sri Lanka, he said.
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