Plantation Industry Minister Navin Dissanayake visited the WATEC exhibition in Israel to find new and practical technology solutions to support the plantation industry to pertain the momentum of the harvest and to support the tea small-holders by introducing new water technologies to gain a consistent income during droughts.

Further, Dissanayake was successful to negotiate long term financing schemes from the manufacturers. He also succeeded in negotiating mobile desalination systems with financing schemes to be installed in several areas in Sri Lanka to overcome the main issue of the agriculture sector.