Directress of SMED Institution Mrs. Renuka Rodrigo said Small and Medium Enterprises Developers of Sri Lanka Trade and Industrial Board has taken steps to conduct a Handicraft Exhibition in Kandy, with the assistance of Sri Lanka Handicraft Commercial Board.

This exhibition will be held from 2nd to 5th of August 2009 between 10.00 a.m. and 8.00 p.m. under the theme of ‘Inland handicraft and the foreign market’. The exhibition which is to be held in the Kandy City Center, has been named ‘Handicraft Expertise 2009 National Handicraft Award Items Exhibition’.

Thereby, handicraftsmen, who have been considered as bottom level entrepreneurs in the field of handicraft, will have the direct approach of inland buyers and foreign buyers without the interference of middlemen and introduce the handmade award winning items in the local market is the main objective of this exhibition.

This exhibition will be held in Kandy from 2nd to 5th of August, 2009, in keeping line with historical Dalada Maligawa Esala Perahera, with the objective of introducing environment friendly inland handmade plastic items.

Items related to woodcarving, items related to metal carving, cane woven items and clay-related items will be displayed in the exhibition. Apart from this, items made of coconut shells and other parts of coconuts and coir related items, earthenwares and production of natural papers also will be showcased in the exhibition. Further, variegated small items made of local raw materials, lace products, bamboo related items, and jewellereies made of good and silver will also be exhibited.