## 📈 Reviving Sri Lanka's Sugar Industry: Gal-Oya Plantations

• Overview: Gal-Oya Plantations continues to drive economic and social development in the Eastern Province through the revival of the sugar and agriculture sectors, operating as a public-private partnership with a 51% government stake and 49% held by Browns and LOLC. • Operational Recovery: Following its restart in 2006 under the Eastern Reawakening Development Programme, the company rehabilitated critical infrastructure, including damaged access roads and deteriorating irrigation canals linked to the Senanayake Samudraya. • Farmer Support & Cultivation: The company provides comprehensive assistance—including seed cane, fertilizer, technical guidance, machinery, and round-the-clock protection teams against wildlife crop damage (such as elephants and wild boar)—to secure stable household incomes. • Community Development: Beyond commercial operations, Gal-Oya Plantations actively invests in local educational infrastructure, student scholarship programmes, and religious and cultural institutions across all faiths in the region.