The Hot-Spot area development model aims to enhance resilience

The Hot-Spot area development model aims to enhance resilience of hotspot areas where you live said Mr. Nagarajah Rajkumar, Deputy Project Director, Project Management Unit (PMU) at Agrarian Service Centre (ASC), Akkarayan, Kilinochchi. Addressing the local community on the benefits and importance of the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project will bring to the men and women farmers in the Hot Spot Area, he further added:

Mr. Rajkumar is addressing farmers

“Those, who depend on hotspot areas for their livelihoods by adapting flexible climate change management practices, will be feasible in the locality.  This project will also focus on adaptive management of existing , improved irrigation water storage and delivery structures to make irrigation more reliable in the face of rising climatic variability.”

 “ The project will also provide men and women smallholder farmers with better agricultural inputs, techniques and practices along with the additional water now available tohelp farmers to better stabilize crop yield rising climatic variability and reduce crop harvest losses".

“The project will focus on identifying new markets, and ensure better access to markets and higher prices, through marketing higher up the value chain, more competitive agri-enterprises and upgraded infrastructure for agricultural trade, so that producers and other value chain participants could better stabilize and increase incomes from agricultural livelihoods.”

Miss. Sharmila Shanmuganathan, Social Safeguard and Gender Development Officer of Project Management Unit (PMU), Mr. S. Parthipan and Mr.V. Suganthan, Agrarian Development Officers of Dept of Agrarian Development and Staff of Provincial Deputy Project Director Office (PDPDO) of Northern Province also participated in this event.