{"id":133438,"date":"2023-04-02T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133438"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:02:05","slug":"president-launches-island-wide-program-to-plant-3m-jackfruit-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/02\/president-launches-island-wide-program-to-plant-3m-jackfruit-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"President launches island wide program to plant 3M jackfruit trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The first phase of the program to plant three million jackfruit trees across the country, under the theme \u2018Guwan Hamuda Herali Perali\u2019, was launched today at the Anuradhapura Air Force Base under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This program has been implemented in conjunction with the government\u2019s food security program with the aim of creating a local and foreign jackfruit market and to promote jackfruit among the Sri Lankan people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this program, seventy five thousand jackfruit trees are expected to be planted within this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book \u2018Guwan Hamuda Herali Perali\u2019 written about the jackfruit plantation was also presented to President Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to jackfruit cultivation, this book also contains information on related products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of State for Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon, President\u2019s Senior Adviser on National Security and Chief of Presidential Staff Sagala Ratnayake, Secretary of the Ministry of Defence General Kamal Gunaratne (Rtd) and several others attended the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The first phase of the program to plant three million jackfruit trees across the country, under the theme \u2018Guwan Hamuda Herali Perali\u2019, was launched today at the Anuradhapura Air Force Base under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. This program has been implemented in conjunction with the government\u2019s food security program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133438","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=133438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}