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| Dr. V. K. Ravichandran is addressing the audience in the workshop |
The
CSA manual provides good information regarding the adaptation of CSA Techniques
said Dr. V.K. Ravichandran, a World Bank Consultant
in the workshop on obtaining comments on the CSA manual of CSIAP for improvement held on 04th this month
at the National Training Center of the Department of Agrarian Development,
Pothuhara, Kurunagala.
Expressing
his idea on the Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Dr. Ravichandran further added
“The adaptation of climate smart agriculture is essentially required in the
present-day scenario of climate change in agriculture. CSIAP (Climate Smart irrigated Agriculture Project), a world bank funded
project in Sri Lanka is started implementing the CSA techniques in agriculture.
In this context, a CSA manual has been prepared by the project for the use of
implementing officials in six provinces in Sri Lanka.”
“The CSA manual provides
good information regarding the adaptation of CSA Techniques which resolve around ( i).
increasing the resources to use efficiently (ii). adaptation techniques to
withstand the extremes of climate change events and findings (iii). climate
change mitigation effects in the agriculture sector to reduce greenhouse gas
emission to enable to bring out the climate resilient techniques”
“I
hope that this workshop is highly useful to finetune the location specific
farmers needed CSA techniques for the six provinces.”
Top
officials representing Department of Agriculture in provincial and district
levels, and staff of the CSIAP were also present on the occasion.
