{"id":3356,"date":"2018-06-20T04:15:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2018-06-20T04:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:15:04","slug":"indian-seafood-producer-willing-to-invest-5-million-in-sri-lankas-aquaculture-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/indian-seafood-producer-willing-to-invest-5-million-in-sri-lankas-aquaculture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian seafood producer willing to invest $ 5 million in Sri Lanka&#8217;s aquaculture sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An Indian seafood producer has expressed interest in investing in Sri Lanka&#8217;s aquaculture sector to boost cultivation of aquatic plants that are needed for the highly demanded shrimp farming overseas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Coastal Corporation Limited (India), one of the leading producers and exporters of high quality aquaculture seafood products across the globe, is ready to invest US$ 5 million in cultivation of aquatic plants, the company&#8217;s representative, D. Titus Fernando said when he met with the State Minister of Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Dilip Wedaarachchi today at the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In addition, the Indian investor said his company is ready to expand the mud crab aquaculture, which has a good export potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">State Minister Wedaarachchi thanked the Indian businessman for investing in Sri Lanka and said that since the present Government is also encouraging direct investments, a program will be implemented soon to encourage investment in the fisheries sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In addition, Minister Wedaarachchi said that steps will be taken to expedite the provision of infrastructure facilities to the companies that are engaged in direct investment in the fisheries sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian seafood producer has expressed interest in investing in Sri Lanka&#8217;s aquaculture sector&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}