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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-07-04
Conducting research to identify effective Bio Control Agents for pest and disease management related to tea cultivation in Sri Lanka
- The proposal made by Hon. Navin Dissanayake, the Minister of Plantation Industries, to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding between Synkromax Biotech (Pvt) Ltd. in India and the Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka for the isolation, identification, characterization and the development and evaluation of suitable bio control agents for the management of termites, white grubs and root and stem diseases harmful to the tea cultivation in Sri Lanka and to make an analysis of the results of evaluation in regard to the usage of the said methodology with the objective of enhancing the productivity and the profitability of tea lands, was approved by the Cabinet.