Sri Lanka onion, potato farmers should be sent abroad to study agri tech: opposition leader

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s onion and potato farmers should be trained in techniques used elsewhere and be given a chance to learn from their peers in other countries, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa said. Sri Lanka’s current administration continued Rajapaksa regime import protection on onion and potatoes, which costs more to produce in Sri Lanka, partly due to low yields coming from bad cultivation practices and poor-quality seeds in some cases. Due to years of protection, they are also not of export quality unlike the produce of spice and small holder tea farmers and consumers pay the highest prices for potatoes,…

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