A Home Garden Field Training Programme with 180 villagers in ​​Giribawa, NWP

A Home Garden Field Training Programme was conducted in the Gurulupitigama Grama Niladhari Division of the Rajanganaya Agricultural Service Area in ​​Giribawa by the  Deputy Project Director’s Office in the North Western Province of the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project on  24th and 25th this month. This was one of the hundreds of programmes scheduled in North Western Province  under the Emergency Home Gardening Programme in this year.

Mr. Ravindra Bandara, Agriculture Instructor, demonstrated how farmers could make home gardens and shared his technical expertise with farmers. A subjective discussion was also held with the farmers about the various agricultural issues that they are currently experiencing when cultivating.

Mrs. E.M.N.S. Ekanayakem Grama Niladari (Gurulupitigama), Mr.Premarathnamm, Agriculture Research and Products Assistant (Gurulupitigama) Mrs. S.N.W.M. Anuradha Sandamali, Economic Development Officer (Gurulupitigama), Mrs. P.J.N..Senawirathna, Samurdhi Development Officer (Gurulupitigama), and around 180 villagers were present in this event.

Story and Photographs by Chamara Basnayake (Agriculture Facilitator), Rajanganaya ASC, NWP