{"id":131089,"date":"2023-01-02T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131089"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:32:05","slug":"poland-can-surely-do-better-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/02\/poland-can-surely-do-better-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland can surely do better for Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.lk\/business\/Sri-Lanka-hc\">https:\/\/www.ft.lk\/business\/Sri-Lanka-hc<\/a> Embassy-in-Warsaw-secures-export-opportunities-for-diverse-products\/34-743703<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Quote&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Sri Lanka Mission observed from the numerous inquiries it received from members of the Polish public and Sri Lanka well-wishers, the high appreciation of and increasing demand for Ceylon tea, spices, handloom items (sarongs, beach wraps, and shawls and accessories, etc.), handicrafts, including traditional masks and woven reed\/rattan baskets, handbags, etc., porcelain tableware and giftware, and Ceylon gem encrusted costume jewelry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unquote&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you read the news above start ordering whether Sri Lanka can do better than this to earn more foreign currency\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by selling petty things like tea handlooms and other small items rather than promoting investment in heavy industries like shipbuilding. Steel plants manufacturing agriculture equipment and mining etc\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the purpose of having an embassy in Poland where well-clad fashionable ladies sell these petty things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka should think big&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should employ knowledgeable export promoters who can identify the need for Sri Lanka at this moment&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland is a highly developed European country that can invest in Sri Lanka where commodities can be manufactured using our skilled labour\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath &nbsp;obeysekera&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera https:\/\/www.ft.lk\/business\/Sri-Lanka-hc Embassy-in-Warsaw-secures-export-opportunities-for-diverse-products\/34-743703 &nbsp; Quote&nbsp; \u00a0Sri Lanka Mission observed from the numerous inquiries it received from members of the Polish public and Sri Lanka well-wishers, the high appreciation of and increasing demand for Ceylon tea, spices, handloom items (sarongs, beach wraps, and shawls and accessories, etc.), handicrafts, including traditional masks and woven reed\/rattan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131089","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=131089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}