The Israel Center for International Agricultural Cooperation (CINADCO) organized an awareness programme with Export Development Board (EDB) for farmers engaged in cultivation of fresh fruit and vegetables in central province. It is a one week awareness programme with visits to farms and research centers covering all areas in Israel. Sri Lankan group consist 8 participants from central province. Deputy Director-Central Province of EDB also participated to the programme. Israel embassy in India also assisted to this programme successful.
NEW YORK: President Mahinda Rajapaksa held several bilateral discussions this afternoon at United Nations Headquarters on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Summit 2014.
Realising the impending necessity to address the impact of climate change on the island nation, the Sri Lankan Government has collaborated with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to develop a national adaptation strategy to mitigate the effects of a changing climate.
NEW YORK: President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 2014 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to extend Sri Lanka’s support to the Elephant Action Network that works toward the conservation of elephants, particularly the greatly threatened African elephants.