INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has actually advised the Nuwara Eliya District Secretary and Commissioner to right away offer 30 acres of
abandoned land nearby to the Ambewela Farm to them and provide necessary facilities to establish it as grazing land to meet the food
requirement of the dairy cows.President Wickremesinghe released these instructions the other day (Dec
27) during an observation trip of the United Dairies Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd, which belongs to the Ambewela Farm Group, the Presidents Media
Division (PMD) reported.The President has actually applauded the systematic growth attained by the Ambewela Farm in the dairy production
market, including that it has set an example for other dairy farms
The President likewise instructed to open this farm for research activities for college student in the country to get experience in the
dairy farming field, the PMD said.General Manager of the Ambewela Farm Group Sarath Bandara mentioned that the Ambewela Farm is the main
centre in Sri Lanka as well as in South Asia which can boast of the highest technical application in dairy production and farming
technology.The PMD also mentioned that presently, there have to do with 1,000 dairy cows at the Ambewela Farm, adding that all activities
such as maintaining the dairy cows, providing needed fodder, weighing, identifying diseases and separating them from others are done through
The cows are milked thrice a day and 40,000 litres of liquid milk is provided to the marketplace daily, it said.Around 4,500 cows are
currently being fed within the entire Ambewela Farm network
While this institution was under the government prior to the facility of the Ambewala Group in 2001, the daily milk production stood at a
mere 1,500 litres, according to the PMD.The Ambewela Farm system has actually been working for the last 15 years to create the best dairy
Accordingly, none of these dairy cows is imported and just a very couple of male animals are imported when every couple of
years.Additionally, around one thousand indirect tasks have actually been created in the process of supplying fodder for the animals on this
A system is currently in place to get the whole maize plant to the Ambewela Farm from the farmers after harvesting the crop
Accordingly, the Ambewela Farm has centers to collect around 25,000 metric tons of maize plants yearly and store them.President Ranil
Wickremesinghe likewise inspected the 30 acres of abandoned land in the area of the Ambewela Farm which has actually been recognized as
suitable land for the growing of yard, the PMD added
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