Rural financing programme implemented under small tea and rubber estate restoration project.

The Government of Sri Lanka and the International Fund for Agricultural Development has entered into an agreement for implementing the Small Tea and Rubber Estate Restoration Project. ‘Rural Financing Programme’ is implemented under that project and is scheduled to be wound up from 31.12.2022. Another Rs.172.35 million from the allocated sum for the said programme is to be released to the beneficiaries as loans.

Therefore, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal furnished by the Minister of Plantation Industries to extend the period of the said programme until 30.06.2023.