Friday, 3 March 2023

The World Bank Vice President receives a token of appreciation from MoA

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.