Yesterday (30), in the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with members of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The President’s Media Division (PMD) reports that the discussion’s main point of interest was the digitalization of data in Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector.
The government’s initiatives to modernize the agricultural sector, boost nutrition, combat climate change, and provide financial security must be kept up, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
Officials from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation indicated at the discussion that they would be happy to support these initiatives as long as they adhered to the laws and rules governing financial aid and the use of contemporary technology. They provided pertinent data to back up their position.
Also discussed during the conference was the idea of founding an institution solely focused on climate change.
Shehan Semasinghe, Minister of State for Finance; Sagala Ratnayake, Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of Staff; Saman Ekanayake, Secretary to the President; Ruwan Wijewardena, Senior Advisor to the President on Climate Change; Dr. Suren Batagoda, Advisor to the President on National Food Security; General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff; and Vernon Perera, Chandani Wijewardena, and Dr. S
