Ten-year Horizon Development Framework - Ministry of Finance and ...

• Human Resource Development will be undertaken to train all levels of estate staff ie estate managers,
middle level officers and estate workers
• A Plantation Development Fund will be set up to provide better opportunities for long-term investment
in the sector
• Allowing private tea estates to utilize cess funds to accelerate the pace of technological change, and
research on tea product development and process improvement:
• Incentive structure for replanting and new planting of coconut will be further intensified
• Integrating health and education services provided to the estates in to the national systems and
developing the physical and social infrastructure serving them to uplift their social status
1323 Livestock Sector
The main policy goal of the sector is for livestock farmers to achieve sustained and equitable
economic and social benefits and to increase the domestic livestock products at competitive prices
These would be achieved through specific policies for the dairy, poultry and the meat sub-sectors
The dairy sector takes priority in livestock development Promoting liquid milk production in
regions in non-traditional areas is emphasized Quality improvement of dairy herd will be achieved
through upgrading the native herd with private sector investments Import and fiscal policy on dairy
products will focus on improving the competitiveness of the sector The Market forces will govern the
pricing mechanism with minimum state intervention The value addition of every aspect of the dairy
industry will be encouraged In 2005, 20 percent of the total milk requirement of the country was
supplied locally It is expected to reach 30 percent and 50 percent of the local requirement by 2010 and
2015 respectively
Poultry sector development will be encouraged through private investment The role of the public
sector will be limited to regulatory functions for animal disease management and quality assurance of
inputs and outputs
In the meat sub-sector, public investment will be limited to the provision of appropriate germplasm
for meat breeds for livestock species However, private sector activities on meat production will be
encouraged
According to the WHO standards per capita consumption of eggs and chicken should be 100 and
10 kg whereas in Sri Lanka the corresponding figures stand at 54 and 45 kg The Government will
provide fiscal incentives to the poultry sector to be on par with per capita consumption levels prescribed
by WHO standards Steps have also been initiated to include the poultry sector into the NCRCS loan
scheme to facilitate poultry industry activities
The Government will provide the necessary resources for biological research, technological research
and product development in the livestock sector
14 Development Targets
During the plan period, the agriculture sector as a whole will grow at an annual rate of over 5
percent This growth will result from a combination of an increase in the extent of production and
improvement of the productivity of all three sub-sectors Growth rates of the extent and of the productivity
that are required to achieve the overall rate of 5 percent growth by the individual sub-sectors are
summarized in Table 1
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