Setting out the building plan of the Farm Field School completed at Thirappane

The Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) completed setting out the building plan of the Farm Field School (FFS) on the ground yesterday (03rd) at Mannakkulama village of Thirappane in Anuradhapura District.   Dr. Milinda Pathiraja, who took over the architectural design of the FFS carried out setting up with his team to locate the position of the structural parts of the FFS as in the detailed drawing with geometrical construction.

The proposed school will train farmers in 11 districts of the six provinces (North Western, North Central, Northern, Eastern, Uva and Southern Provinces) where the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project being implemented and provide them with experience in climate change farming practices and technology. The FFS will cost Rs. 117 million which is funded by the World Bank. Dr. Milinda Pathiraja provides his services free of charge with his team.

The 2700 selected male and female farmers, 150 Extension Staff of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Agrarian Development will be direct beneficiaries of the FFS, which is designed to be environmentally friendly and adapt to the farming environment. Those courses at FFS will cover Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies and practices that can be applied in both Maha and Yala seasons in hot-spot areas, wetland paddy cultivation, upland cultivation, homestead cultivation and for the other field crops (OFCs).

On behalf of the Project Management Unit (PMU) of  the CSIAP, Deputy Project Director. Dr. Priyantha Weerasinghe and senior officials along with Mr. Lakshman Premanth, Deputy Project Director of CSIAP’s North Central Province and his staff attended this event.