Nov 4, 2020: Sri Lanka’s most trusted poultry group Crysbro, commends the government’s initiative to revive and reinforce Sri Lanka’s maize cultivation industry in a bid to bolster the country’s food security agenda. The new initiative activated by the Ministry of Agriculture’s minor crop cultivation unit, re-introduced maize cultivation to the Polonnaruwa District in a larger scale in March 2019. “Sri Lanka’s annual demand for maize to be used in poultry feed stands at approx. 450,000 metric tons and currently only about 225,000 metric tons is supplied from within the country to fulfill this need. Therefore, the strong efforts made by the government to revive maize cultivation are very timely,” said Crysbro Senior Marketing Manager, Amores Sellar.

Source: The Nation November 05, 2020 15:11 UTC