Diversifying export basket, a top priority for EDB

Diversifying export basket, a top priority for EDB
 

The Export Development Board (EDB) is working towards an ambitious yet achievable target of US $ 18.5 billion this year, up 15% from last year. To this end, EDB Chairman Prabhash Subasinghe made a clarion call to all stakeholders, government agencies in particular, to make a concerted effort to meet the target.Stressing the need to make exports a national priority, he said, “We have not changed our export basket during the past 40 years, and our exporters face a long list of challenges which have gone unaddressed over many years. We cannot move forward this way.”