These farmers cultivated numerous crops similar to chillies, candy melons, sesame seeds and inexperienced grams. Below the Agriculture Sector Modernization Venture, these farmers had been launched to trendy cultivation methods similar to excessive density cultivation methodology, double uncooked cultivation methodology, and sprinkler and drip irrigation know-how.
Accordingly, 80 out of 100 farmers of Thirappane who cultivated utilizing the identical technical strategies managed to earn revenue from 2.5 million to 7.5 million rupees within the interval of 02 to 09 months of the yr 2023.
A program to understand these farmers was held not too long ago (05) in Puliyankulama space of Thirappane. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Trade, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera, and was held on the residence of Mr. Bandula, Puliyankulama, who earned an revenue of 12 million rupees from the cultivation of half an acre of chilli final yr.
The brand new technological machine for drying chillies constructed by the Agriculture Sector Modernization Venture at a price of 13 million rupees was additionally handed over to the farmers by the minister. This machine is able to drying 800 kg of ripe chillies at one time in 16 hours.
The Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Trade, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera, who expressed his views here-
Thirppane village is now a spot recognized not solely in Sri Lanka however the entire world. At this time, the entire world is aware of about Buddhika Younger, who earned 04 million rupees from an acre of watermelon in two months, and Mr. Puliyankulame Bandula, who earned 12 million rupees from half an acre of chillies.
To introduce trendy agriculture to the youth group, the Honorable President Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe gave one other quantity of 2500 million rupees along with the price range of our ministry. Utilizing this cash, we’ll designate 150 villages within the island as new agro-technological mannequin villages and produce them to a state of excessive revenue. We began giving this program this yr. Accordingly, we choose at the very least 05 villages from every district to be developed as agro-technical villages.
Up to now, farmers all the time mentioned that farming is a loss. However now there’s a technology of farmers who say that now we have earned a excessive revenue from farming. We must be grateful to Puliyankulam Bandula and Tirappane Buddhika who took steps for that.
Now we’re a technology of farmers who declare to be making earnings and a tradition has been created as a result of these farmers are actually working onerous. Within the maha season of 2023, for the primary time, many farmers within the Udawalawe zone had been in a position to improve their yield to 12 metric tons per hectare. 12 metric tons of paddy is 12,000 kg of paddy. When such a big harvest may be obtained, even when a kilogram of paddy is offered at 50 rupees, the farmers is not going to incur any loss.
Nevertheless, as a consequence of cultivation by way of new agricultural know-how, the village of Thirappane is understood worldwide as an space the place farmer kings dwell.
Right here, the farmers offered a present to the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Trade Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera.
The Agriculture Sector Modernization Venture offered all of the services wanted for cultivation to every of those farmers.
