{"id":134610,"date":"2023-05-26T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134610"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:52:09","slug":"boi-gets-green-light-for-pilot-project-to-cultivate-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/26\/boi-gets-green-light-for-pilot-project-to-cultivate-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"BOI gets green light for pilot project to cultivate cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka has received the approval from an expert committee to embark on a pilot project to cultivate cannabis within a BOI zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was revealed by Investment Promotion State Minister Dilum Amunugama during a media briefing at the BOI headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot project is to kick-off soon in the Katunayake zone and discussions are underway with investors and experts to finalise the pilot project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have been authorised as the experts committee report is out. It&#8217;s a &#8216;Yes&#8217;. We have got the instructions to go ahead with the pilot project,&#8221; said Dilum Amunugama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The investors who are interested in the project will have to grow the cannabis and manufacture a product out of it, which will be the income for the country,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Minister proceeded to say that the Cabinet would have to be briefed as to how the project is to be implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, he said the BOI has been able to attract investments worth USD 604 million during the period from January to May in 2023, with 22 new projects and six expansions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka has received the approval from an expert committee to embark on a pilot project to cultivate cannabis within a BOI zone. This was revealed by Investment Promotion State Minister Dilum Amunugama during a media briefing at the BOI headquarters. The pilot project is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134610","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=134610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}