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| Friday, 16 January 2004 |
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by Indika Polkotuwa The country's leaders must unite to rebuild the country, said Uruwarige Vanniala Ettho, Chieftain of the primordial settlers in Sri Lanka. Vanniala Ettho and his retinue who were taken around the Agriculture Department's Headquarters Complex, the Botanical Garden, seed and horticulture laboratory and other sites of agricultural importance in Peradeniya, as an awareness tour said in the recent past, certain politicians fragmented the forest area into 50 to 60 acre blocks and distributed among various people in the name of development. "The very same beneficiaries today complain to us of long droughts and drying out water springs," he said. Vanniala Ettho said he intended to launch a program of reforesting 100 acres of land each year to remedy this error. "People are destroying themselves in the rat race of development. It breeds jealousy. Material development springs from moral development. The electronic media has tremendously degenerated our morals," he said. "Methodical uplift of our agriculture is the way to prosperity. If there is no unity and harmony among our leaders, rebuilding the country is a far cry," Vanniala Ettho said. Vanniala Ettho and his team also called on Ven. Madanwala Saranapala Nayaka Thera, Yatinuwara Uppradhana Adhikarana Sanghanayake at Gannoruwa Raja Maha Viharaya where the Prelate is the Viharadhipathi. The party headed by Vanniala Ettho was accompanied by Dr. S.L. Weerasena, Director General of Agriculture, Chandralatha Obeysekera, Administrative Directress of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. C. Kudagama, Director of Horticulture Research Institute, Dr. Cyril Wijesundera, Director of the Peradeniya Botanical Garden and officials of the Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya. |
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