Mr.
Martin Raiser, South Asian Vice President of the World Bank receives a token of
appreciation prepared by the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project
(CSIAP) during the observation tour at
the Farmer Training School ( FTS) in Thirappane, Anuradhapura from Mr. Gunadasa
Samarasinghe, Secretary of Agriculture recently.
The FTS, which
has been designed to build the capacity of project beneficiaries for the use of
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies and combat the adverse impact of
climate change, was built at a cost of Rs. 40 million by the Climate Smart
Irrigated Agriculture Project funded by the World Bank and implemented under
the Ministry of Agriculture. The FTS where
Mr. Faris H. Hadad-Zervos and Ms. Chiyo Kanda laid foundation stones on 22nd
December 2021, was declared open by Hon. Mahinda Amaraweera, the Minister of
Agriculture on 04th December 2022.