Extracted From News Clips on Banana Cultivation  in Sri lanka

Ambul Bananas Bringing Honey and Money

Sri Lanka signed an agreement in 1952 to import rice form China. It was called as China Sri Lanka rubber Rice Pact 1952. This was because that Sri Lanka did have enough dollar to import rice to country. Then, Sri Lanka tried to export labour, garments to other countries to earn dollars. Accordingly, it expects to develop tourism to increase foreign reserves. Now exporting ambul banana to other countries is a good effort to earn dollars under the economic crises in sri Lanka. As a result 12500 kilos of Ambul banana is to send to Dubai initially and then to continue the process further.

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