Agriculture and Plantation Industry Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said that the President Ranil Wickramasinghe’s attention has been focused on establishing a General Secretariat of Modern Agricultural Technology for the development of agriculture in this country.
A delegation of the World Bank and the European Union are currently in the country and on Sunday (29) the delegation participated in monitoring the progress of two agricultural projects in the country under the assistance of the World Bank. They observed several projects under the Agricultural Sector Modernization Project and the Climate Smart Agricultural Irrigation Project.
First, the group observed South Asia’s first climate friendly agriculture school established in Tirappane and then observed the activities of the sour banana export village and processing centre established in Rajanganaya.
Agriculture and Plantation Industry Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe, MP Duminda Dissanayake and other Deputy Ministers and officials also participated in this observation tour.
The Head of the World Bank delegation was the World Bank’s Managing Director (Operations) Anna Bjerde, Senior Vice President (JICA) Sachiko Imoto, Vice President (South Asia Region) Martin Raizer, Faris H. Haded-Zervos, Country Director of Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives of WB, Anjali Kaur, Deputy Assistant Administrator and others participated.
The Minister said that the President Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed to the Cabinet to establish a General Secretariat for Modern Agricultural Technology in Sri Lanka with the aim of introducing modern agricultural technology to farmers.
He also said that the relevant papers will be presented to the Cabinet in the next two weeks and that it will propose a number of work arrangements to introduce new technology to the agricultural sector.
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