CSIAP extends its sincere greetings and best wishes to Sinhalese and Tamils

Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project extends its sincere greetings and best wishes to the Sinhala and Tamil community to mark the Sinhala and Hindu New Year in a meaningful and fruitful manner. Currently, we are passing through uncertain and unprecedented period due to Covid 19. We must do the right things and be prepared to take steps beyond what we are typically required to defeat this pandemic. We hope that all Sri Lankans are safe and well during this critical time. We stand with all Sri Lankans and with the world at large in these trying times. We wish for a full recovery for all the infected and we are confident that together we will overcome this new challenging crisis very soon.

This New Year is the national and cultural festival of the people in Sri Lanka. The dawn of New Year is the most powerful cultural festival which unites all Sri Lankans. This is the season where all people enjoy traditional merrymaking. The New Year binds with the traditional customs which blooms interrelations, family relationships and friendships. Let us all get together and join hands in order to strengthen and uplift our country.  Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project wishes you a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous new year. 

CSIAP is moving forward to boost the agricultural economy and living standards

Dr. Priyantha Weerasinghe,
Deputy Project Director, CSIAP

CSIAP is moving forward to boost the agricultural economy of the country and uplift the living standards of farmers in climatically vulnerable hot spots areas of 11 districts of the country despite a critical situation where the whole country is facing due to the Covid19 pandemic said, Dr. Priyantha Weerasinghe, Deputy Project Director, Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) with  excursive interviews with National electronic media.  

Expressing furthermore during the interviews with the SLBC, Lakhanda and Ruhunu Sevaya, Dr. Weerasinghe said that this project aims to improve the climate resilience of farming communities through increasing  productivity in climatically vulnerable Hot-Spot Areas identified in 11 districts of Sri Lanka.

In moving forward the project is implementing a program to increase other field crops production covering more than 3000 ac and 5000 beneficiary farmers in this Yala season in all 11 districts and the project will be implemented over six years (2018-2024), he further added.
Please click to listen: 
SLBC Sinhala Service, SLBC Tamil Service, SLBC English Service, Lakhanda and Ruhunu Sevaya.