The Minister expressed these views whereas collaborating within the event of giving the fruit vegetation required for the Nationwide Tree Planting Auspicious time on the 18th of this month to the workers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Plantation Industries.
As a way to get extra productiveness from the agricultural sector in Sri Lanka, new know-how should be launched to the agricultural sector. It’s troublesome to get excessive yield particularly by following conventional strategies. Additionally, it has change into troublesome for the farmers to get a excessive earnings and excessive yield. Resulting from this, there’s a want to draw the youth group to agriculture on this nation.
However there’s a feeling within the youth group of this nation that agriculture isn’t a career that may earn extra earnings. Due to this fact, so as to reconfirm the arrogance of the youth group in agriculture on this nation and to draw them to the agriculture sector. Agricultural modernization tips have been launched to introduce new agricultural know-how.
Final yr in Hambantota, Monaragala, Galle, Vavuniya and Kurunegala Districts the Youth Agri Entrepreneurship Village system was began and thus far the work has been extraordinarily profitable.
Due to this fact, the goal of this program is to pick no less than 200 villages in 200 divisional secretariat divisions of the island vast and develop them as youth agro-entrepreneurship villages. Particularly, offering drone know-how, utilizing parachute discs for paddy cultivation, utilizing sprinkler water know-how for irrigation in addition to drip irrigation technique, cultivating seeds that may get extra yield in addition to cultivating and cultivating top quality crops by reaching the market.
The minister additionally mentioned that many applications comparable to offering automated Web homes are to be launched underneath this. The minister additionally talked about that the cupboard paper he introduced was accepted and the HE the President agreed to offer 25 billion rupees to this program for this yr.
Our economic system has not but recovered. However the HE the President agreed to allocate Rs.25 billion as per my request for this agricultural modernization program. At the moment, many individuals have realized that this nation could be constructed economically solely via agriculture. We’ve got organized many systematic applications for that function, the minister mentioned.
