Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka

Army Troops continue paddy cultivation in Panaluwa

November 15, 2020

The Army’s Security Force Headquarters-West troops sowed paddy in a 6-acre plot of field inside the Army camp in Panagoda and the Army  farm at Panaluwa, Thunthana on Friday (13).

The project which conforms with the Army’s ‘Thuru Mithuru-Nawa Ratak’ re-forestation and cultivation project was launched under the guidance of Commander, Security Forces-West, Maj. Gen. Chula Abeynayake.

The paddy-sowing ceremony was witnessed by the Army Officers and Other Ranks.

The Army troops recently converted a 10-acre marshy land in Seruwawila into a paddy cultivated land.