Thursday 26 May 2022

The World Bank suggests scaling up activities related to agricultural production

The World Bank suggested scaling up activities for agricultural production to enhance food security and increase farmers’ income to overcome the prevailing economic crises in Sri Lanka.

In order to accomplish the above task, the following areas were discussed at a very special meeting held at the Project Management Unit, Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) yesterday (25th)
1. Aggressive scaling-up of homestead vegetable gardening
2. Rapid scaling up of organic compost production
3. Aggressive promotion/supply of materials for leguminous cover crops (Green manure; Sun hemp, Glyricedia etc.) and other soil enhancement techniques
4. Dialogue with our procurement team on involving Farm Organizations in canal maintenance.

Provincial Deputy Project Directors, CSIAP  of six provinces where the CSIAP is being implemented joined the meeting remotely. Mr. John C. Keyser, Senior Agriculture Economist and the Task Team Leader of the CSIAP, Dr. Athula Senaratne (Senior Agriculture Specialist), Mr. Seenithamby Manoharan (Consultant - Agriculture & Rural Development) of the World Bank, R.M.B. Rajakaruna Project Director, Specialists and Officers of the CSIAP were present physically in this discussion.  Please click Images to see more photos of the discussion.