Siddhalepa Group of Companies has increased its herbal garden plantation to over 500 acres and are looking at further increasing it.
“The group has also launched a similar Herbal tree planting product with schoolchildren and this has now passed the 1,000 acre mark, said Siddhalepa Group of Companies, Managing Director, Asoka Hettigoda.
He was speaking at a special event to mark the winning of the International Innovation awards for Sri Lanka’s homegrown, Supirivicky, presented by Enterprise Asia, the leading non-governmental organization for entrepreneurship in Asia for 2018 in Hong Kong.
“This award is a testimony of my family’s untiring efforts to preserve our age old traditions and remedies in a modern form, one that would appeal to both local and international customers, without losing its identity or intrinsic characteristics,” said Hettigoda. He said that this award also proves that local herbal products are well respected internationally.
Supirivicky was launched to the local market in 1988 and was the the world’s first nonwhite toothpaste based on traditional Ayurveda herbs for total oral care.
He said that their export market too was in growing and today over 70% of their products are exported.
Health Minister, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said that the government is very keen to promote traditional Ayurveda exports and would go out of the way to promote them.
Established in 1971, the Group is one of the largest and pioneering industrialists of ayurveda products with a range of over 400 medicinal oils, balms, teas, elixirs, ayurvedic cosmetics, ayurvedic teas and other medicines for domestic and export markets. (SS)
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