Giant step towards self-sufficiency and food security
National Drive for Local Food Production (NDLFP):
As the Government will launch its ambitious,
National Policy on Agriculture and the National Drive for Local Food
Production (NDLFP) on September 3, 2007, the nation's attention will
shift on to one of the vital sectors of the economy, the
Agricultural Sector which provides direct employment to nearly 30
per cent of the population.
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Lankans proud to be literate
Over 861 million without access to literacy-EFA
Global Monitoring Report 2002:
It is a cause for celebration. Sri Lanka's
literacy rate stands at 91.6 per cent as recorded by the UNESCO
Institute for Statistics ,July 2002 and its national literacy goal
by 2010 is an estimated 98 per cent.
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Terrorism Unlimited
The recent events bring to bear the escalation
of terrorism in Sri Lanka could veritably be depicted in speech or
writing as "Terrorism Unlimited". This description could be
quantified especially after the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam
demonstrated its air capability recently in no uncertain terms.
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