The forthcoming visit of the Managing Director of the World Bank being discussed

 A high-level delegation of the World Bank led by Mr. Faris. H. Hadad-Zervos, Country Director, and including Ms. Chiyo Kanda, Country Manager, Sara Gustafson, Senior Country Officer,  Mr. Asela Dissanayake, Senior Operations Officer and  Dr. Athula Senaratne, Senior Agriculture Specialist, visited the Farmer Training School (FTS) at Thirappane last Friday (22nd) to discuss the forthcoming official visit of Ms. Anna Bjerde, Managing Director for Operations of the World Bank to the FTS. On behalf of the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP), Project Director Eng. R.M.B. Rajakaruna, Deputy Project Director (PMU and NCP) Mr. H.M.P. Bandara and other senior officials of the CSIAP attended this discussion.

The World Bank Country Director inspects agricultural machinery at the FTS

Mr. Faris. H. Hadad-Zervos, Country Director of the World Bank inspected the agricultural machinery used for training purposes of farmers who are on three-day residential programmes at the Farmer Training School (FTS) at Thirappane last Friday (22nd). Mr. Hadad-Zervos laid the foundation stone for the FTS on 22^nd December 2021.