{"id":113547,"date":"2021-04-16T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113547"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:52:14","slug":"national-program-to-be-launched-to-distribute-1-million-moringa-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/16\/national-program-to-be-launched-to-distribute-1-million-moringa-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"National program to be launched to distribute 1 million Moringa plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The national program titled \u2018Jeeva Thuru Udanaya,\u2019 organized by the State Ministry of Agriculture to make the general public aware of the nutritional and economic value of the Moringa (drumstick) tree, is expected to kick off tomorrow (April 17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dcf \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dc5 \u0daf\u0dc3 \u0dbd\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0da2\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9\u0dc3\u0da7\u0dc4\u0db1...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vpMOB7_NWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Manusath Derana, the CSR initiative of TV Derana, will join hands with this program to distribute a total of 1 million Moringa plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to Ada Derana \u2018BIG FOCUS\u2019 earlier today, State Minister Shasheendra Rajapaksa\u2019s Private Secretary Sanjeewa Wijekoon said the initiative will be implemented at 2,5000 temples across all districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman of Government Medical Officers\u2019 Association (GMOA) Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya meanwhile pointed out that the drumstick plant was used to reinstate the undernourished regions in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The national program titled \u2018Jeeva Thuru Udanaya,\u2019 organized by the State Ministry of Agriculture to make the general public aware of the nutritional and economic value of the Moringa (drumstick) tree, is expected to kick off tomorrow (April 17). Manusath Derana, the CSR initiative of TV Derana, will join hands with this program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}