Consultative workshop on Millet Development in Sri Lanka Paralel to the International Year of Millet 2023, the Sri Lankan millet workshop organized jointly by the Sri Lankan Department of Agriculture and the Sri Lankan Indian Assistant Commissioner’s Office on 28.07.2023 at the Plant Genetic Resurce Development Center of the Department of Agriculture, with the participation … Continue reading Consultative workshop on Millet Development in Sri Lanka
Farmer Field Day Held on 21 July 2023 at Palvehera Government Seed Production Farm premises. The main objective of this was to provide knowledge and examples to farmers, students studying agriculture courses and technical (agricultural) officers related to the main areas such as crop maintenance, seed production principles and farm mechanization. Agriculture department officials, agriculture … Continue reading Farmer Field Day
The Field Day of RRDI Rice Research and Development Institute, Batalagoda organized an Open Field Day on 18-07-2023 with the aim of bringing the new technology related to Rice cultivation to the public. In order to further expand this service, arrangements have been made to hold the program on 19th and 20th July from 9.00 … Continue reading The Field Day of RRDI
Farmer’s Day A special event was held on 07th July 2023 at Agunakolapalassa Agriculture premises to celebrate “Farmer’s Day”. This celebration was held with the participation of the Honorable Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera and the Director General of the Department of Agriculture Miss P. Malathi. Many officials of the Department of Agriculture and other … Continue reading Farmer’s Day
The National Planting Ceremony The Planting Ceremony, which is the last auspicious ritual of Sinhala and Hindu New Year, was held today (2023/04/20) by the Ministry of Agriculture. Along with the national program organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture and its sub-units have also conducted planting programs in their office premises. … Continue reading The National Planting Ceremony