A Singapore-based Sri Lankan Tamil entrepreneur has suggested a few small-scale agro-based projects with Indian private sector investment to help the hard-pressed fishermen and farmers of the North and East. 

Taking into consideration the travails of the North Sri Lankan fishermen who have not been able to get their legitimate share of fish in the northern waters, Singapore-based Lankan entrepreneur S.Niranjan Nanthagopan has suggested an alternative source of income for them. He proposes sea weed growing.

Hundreds of intruding South Indian bottom trawlers fish in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka on a daily basis, sometimes a kilometer away from the Sri Lankan shore. 

It is said that they take away 40% of the fish on the Sri Lankan side of the international maritime boundary. They also destroy hundreds of Sri Lankan fishing nets. Despite arrests and seizure of their vessels, the Indian fishermen continue to intrude and indulge in banned forms of fishing.