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Resettled farmers in Jaffna receive farming equipment
Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 12:30 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Mar 09, Jaffna: Under Sri Lanka's Uthuru Wasanthaya development program resettled farmers in Jaffna District recently received agriculture equipment from the Governor of the Northern Province Major General G.A. Chandrasiri.
The governor has distributed 20 two-wheel tractors and 30 water pumps with necessary accessories to the farmers resettled in the district at a ceremony organized by the Department of Agriculture and held at the District Agricultural Training Centres (DATC) in Jaffna.
Secretary to the Governor Mr.S.Rangarajah, and other district heads also participated in this ceremony.
(Photo courtesy of Northern Provincial Council)