The Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera, advised the Coconut Cultivation Board to provide a hotline number where the farmers can inform directly about any problems related to coconut cultivation including white fly disease.
Accordingly, the Coconut Cultivation Board has taken measures to introduce a hotline number from next Monday (August 05) to make it easy to inquire about any problem related to coconut cultivation.
This hotline number is 1916.
Accordingly, the chairman of the Coconut Cultivation Board Mr. Panduka Weerasinghe stated that officials have been prepared to provide necessary answers to public problems by responding immediately to any problem reported through this phone number.