Mr Key also announced New Zealand will work with Sri Lanka to pilot New Zealand's Farm IQ technology, a digital farm management and monitoring system, there. Sri Lanka was interested in the co-operative model New Zealand used for dairying and it was also studying New Zealand's MMP voting system for politics. He addressed questions about human rights in Sri Lanka by saying "it's a quite open society today. Mr Key said Sri Lanka had embarked on a courageous course to rebuild the country after a generation-long civil war. Sri Lanka was a market of 21 million people nestled in a part of the world that had high demand, Mr Key said

Source: Sunday Times October 02, 2016 05:37 UTC