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By Aamna Mahboob Sri Lankan farmers should adopt modern agricultural cultivation techniques to obtain maximum output, stressed Moratuwa University Chancellor Vidya Jyothi Dr. Ray Wijewardene.He made these observations at a discussion conducted by Colombo MBA Alumni Association (CMBAAA) held last week.
The centuries-old agricultural techniques used by Sri Lankan farmers need to be replaced with modernized Western techniques, he said. They use the old methods and are following the path of their forefathers, which, in the present age is of no use, he added.
Sri Lankans are talented and intelligent and can produce everything in their own country by turning to the modern scientific methods, he said.
“We in Sri Lanka are truly blessed with resources. I must admit that our scientists in Sri Lanka have failed to take a lead helping exploit the vast resources with which this country is blessed, and not only to the extent of ' writing a paper' for some foreign journal or publishing pious recommendations; but ensuring that their research is both socially and financially sound in the context of this country,” he added.
Dr. Wijewardene further said that both agricultural scientists as well as nutritionists have affirmed the technologies by which such a country’s basic needs can be achieved, provided a political and national commitment is made.
“A firm political commitment towards non-dependence for food and nutrition would very quickly galvanise the re-direction of development endeavour towards this end, as it has in Israel, in Cuba, and in a host of other countries when their backs came against the wall,” he said

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