Netherlands support for Sri Lankan industries

New Netherlands Ambassador Joanne Doornewaard was the Chief Guest at the recent PUM Netherlands Senior Experts’ presentation of their services to local industries. PUM local representative S.P.C. Kumarasinghe jointly organised this presentation with the Agricultural Policy Officer of the Dutch Embassy, Nishan Dissanayake. This presentation which was held at OPA was attended by over 30 Sri Lankan companies. 

In her keynote address the Ambassador said under the motto ‘Old Friends – New Trends’ that the Netherlands Government was willing to provide more facilities to local dairy industries and agriculture. PUM Country Coordinator Cees van Dijl made a presentation assisted by Kumarasinghe explaining how PUM provides free technical assistance to 70 sectors of industry and service providers.  

PUM Netherlands Senior Experts completed 43 projects in 2014 and over 500 Sri Lankan companies had been assisted by PUM during past two decades. More than 200 selected applicants were sent to the Netherlands for further training.