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OCTOBER 2011 MIHISARA .

Fair Trade



In June last year (2013) Savisthri members in the Matara, Monaragala and Anuradhapura Districts held Fair Trade exhibitions in their respective districts with the sole aim of eradicating injustices meted out to the Producers and Consumers as a consequence of the intervention of intermediaries.
In the same month these alternate production fairs were held in the Matara, Monaragala and Anuradhapura Districts which provided an opportunity to the consumers to purchase locally produced products free of poisonous stuff.


Holding of these fairs had contributed immensely to explain the importance of consuming a meal free of poisonous stuff which in turn increased the income of the villagers.

A meeting organized by the Savisthri womens collective of the Matara District had been held in the Matara District a couple of months back to give an awareness to the people’s representatives regarding the difficulties experienced by the farmers as a consequence of the various issues that had cropped up in the fishing industry which meeting was attended by the Southern Provincial Council Fisheries Minister and the chairman of the Dondra Local Government institution on 15.07.2013.


This meeting was well attended by the fishermen and fisherwomen scattered all over in the Matara District who explained their difficulties such as the informal manner of implementing the fuel subsidy arrest of the fishermen in the seas, invasion of our seas by the foreign fishing trawlers and non availability of a reasonable market place for their products such as dried fish, maldive fish etc. They requested the people’s representatives to expedite the settlement of their issues and drew their attention to the necessity of having a national fisheries policy.