{"id":143882,"date":"2024-09-04T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143882"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:34:02","slug":"sajith-aims-to-create-smart-farmers-and-smart-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/09\/04\/sajith-aims-to-create-smart-farmers-and-smart-fishermen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith aims to create \u2018smart farmers\u2019 and \u2018smart fishermen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Samagi Jana Balawegaya\u2019s (SJB) Presidential Candidate and Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa says that steps will be taken to turn both deep sea and freshwater fishing industries into a \u2018smart industry\u2019 under his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a rally held in Puttalam, he highlighted his vision to initiate a public-private joint venture in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), on the country\u2019s sea border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further added, We are working to improve this fishing industry by making both marine and freshwater fishing industry into a smart industry, using new methods along with new technology.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premadasa emphasized that Sri Lanka\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), extending 200 nautical miles from the coast, was secured in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We intend to direct this Exclusive Economic Zone towards sustainable development through collaborative public-private projects around the country and to bring in required resources and foreign investments into the country,\u201d said Premadasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Premadasa stated that he plans to enhance agriculture in the area not only by improving paddy cultivation but also improving crop production. He also expressed his goal to foster the development of \u2018smart farmers\u2019 and \u2018smart fishermen\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Samagi Jana Balawegaya\u2019s (SJB) Presidential Candidate and Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa says that steps will be taken to turn both deep sea and freshwater fishing industries into a \u2018smart industry\u2019 under his government. During a rally held in Puttalam, he highlighted his vision to initiate a public-private joint venture in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sajith-premadasa","category-samagi-jana-balawegaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143882","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=143882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}