NAICC Sub Units

Agro Technology Park Gannoruwa

Mission

The mission of the Gannoruwa agro technology park is to provide efficient, effective, demand responsive and integrated agricultural extension services through agro technology parks and exhibitions to facilitate the general agriculture extension services for better public access to agricultural information. In addition, promotion of agro tourism with novel concept of edible landscaping to conserve traditional agricultural values, utilize better know how, improve productivity, optimize profitability and ensure sustainability.

NAICC Sub Units

Agro Technology Park Gannoruwa

Mission

Brief introduction

The Agro technology park consist of over 30 different agricultural demonstration plots covering almost all the subject areas communing under agriculture. It demonstrates model home garden, museum, mushroom unit, tissue culture unit, pest and disease units, plant quarantine unit, spice garden, soil conservation unit, herbal unit, traditional chana cultivation, Yams collection, tea garden, lake culture, sorjan cultivation, rice cultivation, other field crops, leafy vegetable garden, organic cultivation, crop wild relatives, vegetable garden, weather unit, bee keeping unit, high tech agriculture unit including micro irrigation and protected cultivation, also consist of hela bojun traditional food court, seed and planting material sales outlet, DOA publication, value added food sales outlet and GAP vegetable and fruit sales outlets. The park open for the public in all week day and Saturdays except Sunday and other public holydays from 8.30am to 4.00pm. Entrance ticket fee as follows

Local	Ticket fee	Foreign	Ticket fee
Adults	Rs 20.00	Adults	Rs 200.00
School children	Rs 5.00	Children (<12 year)	Rs 100.00
Children (<12 year)	Rs 10.00

To disseminate timely important demand responsive agricultural information among the public.
To conduct national level agricultural exhibitions representing DOA on demand basis.
To promote edible landscaping as a measure to motivate home gardening activities in the country
To protect traditional and indigenous knowledge, technologies related to the agriculture sector
To promote concept of agro tourism in the country to conserve traditional agriculture values, optimize profitability.
To train the NVQ level 4, 5, and 6 students recruiting from the FS, technical collages and NITA institutes.

Management of more than 30 different agriculture demonstration plots including rice, ofc, vegetables, home garden, soil conservation, mushroom etc.
Dissemination of agriculture knowledge and skills to general public using verbal instruction by agriculture instructors, in addition well informative display boars and leaflets at each demonstration plots
Conducting practical training that visitors have opportunity to develop skills through practically involving some agricultural activities specially in mushroom cultivation.
Organizing and conducting of the national level agricultural exhibitions
Conducting of the 6 month trainings for NVQ level 4 to level 6 students
Organizing and playing street drama to convey some technical massages to the rural community
Designing of edible landscaping sits, technology parks, exhibition sites and agro tourism sits
Construction of field and name board for the DOA institutes