{"id":59995,"date":"2016-10-22T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59995"},"modified":"2016-10-22T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:11:35","slug":"president-orders-one-billion-gliricidia-saplings-to-be-planted-on-tree-planting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/22\/president-orders-one-billion-gliricidia-saplings-to-be-planted-on-tree-planting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT ORDERS ONE BILLION GLIRICIDIA  SAPLINGS TO BE PLANTED ON TREE PLANTING DAY."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">Susantha Wijesingh<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;\"><strong>MR. PRESIDENT !\u00a0 No malice intended, but what is sensational in the GLIRICIDIA PLANT ? <\/strong>What I know of the Gliricidia Plant, is that it is planted for Fences, and its leaves are given to the <em><strong>GOATS<\/strong>,<\/em> as their food. Do we have so many<em>\u00a0 GOATS to feed ? The leaves could be used as fertilizer too.\u00a0 Apparently, somebody misled you.<\/em>\u00a0I stand to be corrected.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;\">Many a time I have opined in this forum, that we should, for a start, plant atleast\u00a0 a 5000 Bread Fruit&#8212;DEL\u00a0 Trees, and a 5000 Jack Fruit&#8212;KOS trees, all over the Country, so that NO ONE will ever have to go hungry in Sri Lanka. With additional effort, the quantity to be planted could be doubled.\u00a0 The Ministry of Agriculture, and the Department of Agriculture could participate in a BIG way to provide the saplings. Every Member of Parliament should throw their effort to this program, and harness all the Schools in the Country to join the effort too.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;\">What is the greatest priority ?\u00a0 PLANTS THAT\u00a0 PROVIDE A SOURCE OF FOOD\u00a0for the people of Sri Lanka,\u00a0? \u00a0\u00a0or\u00a0 Leaves for an <em>intended\u00a0 Goat Population ?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;\">I do hope that the President will use his wisdom and insight, \u00a0to change his mind,\u00a0 in preference for plants that supply a source of food to the people of Sri Lanka.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;\">There is a Country , where their Staple Food is Bread Fruit, and they Export 40 count gunny bags internationally. I just cannot remember the name of the Country, now, \u00a0but will indicate it as my memory refreshes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susantha Wijesingh MR. PRESIDENT !\u00a0 No malice intended, but what is sensational in the GLIRICIDIA PLANT ? What I know of the Gliricidia Plant, is that it is planted for Fences, and its leaves are given to the GOATS, as their food. Do we have so many\u00a0 GOATS to feed ? The leaves could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59995","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=59995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}