Plantation Min. signs MoU with France’s KSAPA for rubber capacity building in Sri Lanka

 

The Ministry of Plantation Industries of Sri Lanka has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a French expert in the rubber industry, KSAPA, for capacity building of Rubber Smallholders in Sri Lanka.

Despite Secretary to the Ministry of Planatation, Janaka Dharamakeerthi having signed the said MoU on 16 December 2022, on behalf of the island nation, it was finalised on 05 January, with KSAPA Managing Director Raphael HARA signing it at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Paris.

The focus of this MoU is to ensure the designing and execution of the “Rubber Improvement of Value Chain & Embedded Smallholders Resilience (RIVER) Project” to implement capacity-building activities in Monaragala, targeting farmer communities that are mainly oriented towards rubber production, the Ministry stated.