Due to the raise popularity of coco substrates in the horticultural industry and the lineament of the Sri Lankan coco product , the industry has watch rapid growth . That means that the effect of the lockdown were also very big , both for the horticultural supply string as for the 20,000 people work in the direct coco husk supply chain as well as another 100,000 indirect jobs . Now they explicate how , thanks to collaboration with the authorization , they were capable to get back on track chop-chop .
With the breakout of the Covid-19 pandemic , the Sri Lankan government enforced a lockdown from the heart of March , cause numerous adversity to the industrialist . However , due to the timely intervention of ECAS ( Exporter Association of Coconut husk - based substrate ) , the manufacture was able to get back on its feet again within less than two weeks although the output content remained low due to the social distancing and other guidepost that became a average to contain infection within work .
“ We are extremely happy that Sri Lanka is among one of the most successful countries in containing the spread of the disease due to the timely and decisive actions of the authorities prioritizing the health and safety of the citizen ” , a spokesman of ECAS percentage . The association comprise the Sri Lankan entrepreneur who are engaged in manufacture and exportation of coir substratum .
Established in 2008 , the ECAS now is creditworthy for almost 95 % of the coconut husk based full exports of the country . With these amounts , they are also responsible for over 20,000 direct and 100,000 indirect usage opportunities in the supplying chain , positioning the industry among the top ten of extraneous rally earners for Sri Lanka . “ We were capable to achieve this due to the persistent efforts to contribute note value to this renewable innate imagination Sri Lanka is blessed with , having the rapidly changing professional horticultural market place at the center of our focus ” , they explain – but this also means the insistence on the diligence was high since there are many people affected by the lockdown .
EACS was able to exploit fleetly with the CDA and EDB to classify the coconut industry as an essential overhaul view its grandness to the world solid food supply and the export economy of Sri Lanka . “ Being able to bring back production within a very unforesightful period under tight preventative measures in the midriff of the crisis was a textbook case of how the government and the individual sector could corporate in overcoming diligence break of any proportions . The industriousness quickly sweep up to the new method of working ensuring the safety gadget of employee so as to honor their contractual obligations to the clients as they were mindful of the fact that growers were depending on their provision . ”
Then there ’s the customer that are depending on the coco ware . Also from that side of the economic value chain of mountains , the ECAS date society . “ We ’re thankful to clients around the orb who endured legion hardships yet demonstrated longanimity and savvy of the certain inevitable wait triggered by the crisis . ”
Now they are confident they navigated the worst of the pandemic . “ The of course inherited properties of coconut product from this blessed Island of Sri Lanka , be it coconut water , virgin coconut oil and coconut milk for uptake purposes , or coir as a substrate merge with the commitment and mania of the Sri Lankan producers undoubtedly makes Sri Lanka “ the preferred supplier for many requirements of coir product in the time to come . Thanks to the conclusion and speed , the manufacture was capable to transform to an agile ecosystem and has once again proved that we are very true suppliers of high - quality cocoa palm base growing media to the humans . ”
About the EACSThe objective of the association is to advance labor union among industry members , parcel market place and technical knowledge , and make representations to the nation on behalf of the industry so as to wield an conducive environment for increase and prosperity of this exportation business sector which is vital to the res publica . EACS is also actively engaged in benchmarking and further the high standards in Sri Lankan coir products whilst fervently act on environmental , social , and economic sustainability throughout the value string benefiting hundreds of thousands of the great unwashed who depend on the Island nation ’s cocoanut manufacture for their support .
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