Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Rajitha Senaratne opened a cluster shrimp farm at Vaddavan in the Vakarai Secretarial Division in the Batticaloa District, constructed at a cost of LKR 160 million funded by the International Funding for Agriculture Development (IFARD) recently. Under the Biyawara scheme, Divisional Secretary Vakarai S Ragulanayaki allocated 120 acre lands for 27 prawn culture recipients.
Each of the recipients will get a loan of LKR 250,000 from the Bank of Ceylon for farming. The deeds for these lands were handed over by Minister Senaratne. A kerosene oil fuel station for the fishing community was commissioned at Palameenmadu, Batticaloa at a cost of LKR 12 million funded by IFARD.