Gift from Japan to boost agricultural productivity in Sri Lanka
March 22, 2010 10:48 pm
The handing over of agricultural machinery under the 2nd Kennedy Round Grant funded by Japan will be held tomorrow (Tuesday), states a media release from the JICA Sri Lanka Office.
The ceremony at the Ministry of Agricultural Development
& Agrarian Services (80/5, ‘Govijana Mandiraya’,
Long term relationship between
This assistance is provided by JICA as a gift to facilitate
JICA extended a grant of 520 million yen for the purchase of 1,024 units of two-wheel tractors, 1,027 units of reversible plough, 400 units of irrigation water pumps with engines, 10 units of potato diggers and 50 units of four-wheel tractors with disc ploughs.
The procured items are to arriving batch by batch from January to June.
Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services is scheduled to distribute this agricultural machinery for direct usage of farmers and for the government seed farms which provide high quality paddy and vegetable seed for farmers.
Utilization of durable two-wheel tractors enabled to increase cultivation extent from 15.2ha to 21.6ha, reduced working hour by mechanization and helped farmers to expand vegetable cultivation etc. Various positive effects have been observed from the interview surveys of farmers’ organizations which have benefited from 2KR Grand Aid in the past.
Also, it is notable that more than half of the total grant
provided this time, on a value basis, will serve the needs of farming
communities in the Northern and Eastern regions of
Japanese 2KR Grant Aid for
It is expected that present Japanese 2KR Grant Aid would
become another milestone of the socio economic development of