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‘Recover, Reconstruct and Rebound’
BUDGET 2022: MY WISH LIST

 Further intensifying these export houses  Currently we observe a pharmaceutical
and processing villages, to produce the export trend. It is also a possibility. We are
required quality to the export market is very also proposing to capture it.
critical to the export market.
 ICT BPM arena, AI, Robotics and all IT
 In our wish list predominantly, promoting products also an opportunity with skills
our agro-based products and other development will also be proposed.
Industrial values that add value.
 Spices also a new opportunity is doubling.
 Most of our exports are primary The key to success is organic and Sri Lanka
products. Like best of the world tea, can drive this to a larger scale since we have
cinnamon(Mexican market) , black pepper this chemical-free concept that is highly
(Indian market). The issue is why can’t appealing. Claiming the Cleaner spices
we add value and send it to Europe and in the world has the edge for us to make
to the rest of the world where those are foreign income.
considered as high valued markets?
 We are also promoting the Chemical-free
 Market promotion activities through concept where we look at insentifying the
the budget. Trade Fairs is an option but Organic fertilizer manufacturer.
pandemic hinders participation.
 Proposing to change the crop practices.
 However, via Zoom and new technology, we
can meet bigger opportunities. Proposing  Proposing to Insentfying, producing seeds.
a fairly large awareness programme to be
used via budget, is to be on par with the
online users to address a fairly larger crowd.
Social Commerce is an emerging new trend
and we need to use it to our advantage
of cross-border marketing. That is Social
media and E-commerce.