Ten Sri Lankan companies were given an opportunity to promote organic agriculture products with export potential at a high profile event held at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Berlin recently, the GIZ office in Colombo divulged. This promotion campaign was implemented as part of the ‘Support to Small and Medium Enterprises in the Organic [...]

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Sri Lanka organic agriculture products promoted in Berlin

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Ten Sri Lankan companies were given an opportunity to promote organic agriculture products with export potential at a high profile event held at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Berlin recently, the GIZ office in Colombo divulged.

This promotion campaign was implemented as part of the ‘Support to Small and Medium Enterprises in the Organic Agriculture Sector’ Programme.

It was jointly co-financed by the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),

The ‘Flavours of Sri Lanka’ event was a collaboration between GIZ Sri Lanka, the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Berlin and the Sri Lanka Export Development Board, GIZ said.

The 10 displayed Sri Lankan organic products were: Banana blossom (Sayaladu CoCo); Coconuts (Ceylon Exports & Trading); Vanilla (D&P Ceylon Expo); Cinnamon (Savour Route); Pepper (Joint Agri Products Ceylon Pvt Ltd); Jackfruit (Worga Naturals Pvt Ltd); Mango (Ellawala Horticulture Pvt Ltd); Blooming Tea (Gralgo from Ceylon Pvt Ltd); Immunity Booster Drink (Adhitya Ayurveda); and Moringa Powder (Lanka Good Market Gte Ltd).

European buyers and investors were able to discover and try the products while interacting with the respective companies and building business contacts, the GIZ Colombo office revealed.

Chair of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia of Deutsche Bundestag and Former Federal Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture of Germany Renate Kuenast stressed the importance of popularisng organic agriculture products.

Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Germany Varuni Muthukumaran; International Officer responsible for Sri Lanka from the European Commission Tomasz May; and the Head of GIZ Berlin Randa Kourieh also addressed the gathering. .

The event highlighted the EU and GIZ work done in the field of organic agriculture in Sri Lanka, which included supporting over 1000 farmers and over 100 private sector companies.

GIZ Sri Lanka and EU have been leveraging Sri Lanka’s organic agriculture industry, by providing technical inputs and knowledge to uplift the industry’s export potential.

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