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Workshop on Transfer of Agricultural Technology
Application of ICT for Resilient Agriculture
Putrajaya- Malaysia, 18-20 July 2017
Country presentation – Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Mostly flat plains
Mountains rising in the south-central part
The highest elevation 2,524m
Warm tropical climate
103 rivers
1,585 km coastline
Distinct monsoonal and inter monsoonal rain fall
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Total area 65,610 Sq. km
Land area 62,705 Sq km
Inland waters 2,905 Sq km
Arable land 23,452 sq km
(37.4 % of the land area )
Status of Agriculture in National Economy
• Per capita GDP of USD 2922 in 2016
• Agriculture GDP contributes 12% of National GDP
• GDP Growth of 4.7% in between 2010 and 2014
• Population 21.5 million mid 2016
• 82 % of population lives in agriculture- dominant rural
areas
• 42 % of population engaged in in agricultural primary
production
Climatic Zones and Monsoons
Mandate of Agriculture Research
• Focus agricultural research and development on livelihood improvement and poverty alleviation, achieving food security, enhancing agro-based industries and preparing the agricultural sector to face global challenges.
• Use cutting edge technologies such as Bio-technology, Geographical Information System
• (GIS) technology, pre- and post-harvest technology, nanotechnology for efficient agricultural production and environmental conservation
Agriculture Research
• Rice Research & Development Institute (RRDI)
* 2 Regional Centres & 4 Research Stations
• Horticulture Research & Development Institute (HRDI)
* 2 Regional Centres & 5 Research Stations
• Field Crop Research & Development Institute (FCRDI)
* 3 Regional Centres & 3 Research Stations
• Fruit Research & Development Institute (FRDI)
* 6 Research Stations
• Natural Resources Management Centre (NRMC)
National policies, programmes and initiatives
• Food production national programme 2016-2018Ensuring food security, producing supplementary food
crops locally whereby minimizing food imports and
increasing famer income.
• Sustainable agricultural water management programme
Using solar power irrigation techniques for dry zone
• Enhance agricultural mechanization
• Home garden programme
Ensuring family’s food and nutritious requirement
Success stories
Use of leaf colour charts (LCC) to determine N requirement of rice plants to ensure that the crop's nitrogen need is supplied, particularly at critical growth stages
Seedling broadcasting (SBC)/parachute technology as an estimated method for rice
Seedling broadcasting method preserves 1-2 irrigation water issues.
Use airoponic & hydroponic techniques for seed potato production
Producing Virus free good quality seed potato.
Produced hybrid crop verityMI hybrid maze 1
Average Yield 5-6 t/ha
• Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) project
Eco Friendly Agriculture Food Safety Monitoring
Farm women empowering
• Clusters of Micro Enterprises
• The Investors Having Networking of Out lets
Application of ICT in Agriculture
Structure of the Presentation
▪ Ongoing practices
▪ Present needs and gaps
▪ Major R&D activities, programmes and
initiatives in the relevant field
Interactive Multimedia CDs on Agriculture
▪ Multimedia supported learning material
▪ Integration Text, photos, illustrations, audio, video
and animations
• Local languages – Sinhalese Tamil & English
• Self learning tool
Department of Agriculture –www.doa.gov.lk
• Simple design and user-friendly website / e-Services
WikiGoviya – www.goviya.lk
▪ Multimedia supported learning material
▪ Integration Text, photos, illustrations, audio, video and
animations
• Local languages – Sinhalese Tamil & English
▪ Consist of
• Agriculture Wikipedia
• E-Learning on crop technology
• Discussion Forum
• Agriculture classified
• E-Magazine
Agriculture Portal –www.krushilanka.lk
▪ Different institutions are responsible for Agriculture– DOA
– DAPH
– EDOA
– CRI / TRI / SRI
• The Portal provides single window for finding those information
Biodiversity for Food & Nutrition Project (BFNP)
www.bfnsrilanka.org
• securing national food security
through agro-biodiversity
• Policy establishment and
strengthening regulatory
frameworks
• United Nations Environment
Programme - UNEP & Food
and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations - FAO
Agriculture Videos in National TV
• Uploaded to the online video repository
Agriculture Radio Programmes
• Broadcasted on daily basis
• Agriculture Community Radio Stations
• Local language : Sinhalese & Tamil
• Associated with National / Regional Radio Channels
Online Agriculture Radio
• Recorded and real time broadcasting / Web streaming on www.krushifm.lk
• Listeners are Linked with SMSs
• Proposed a separate frequency (FM or AM/MW)
Online Agriculture Radio on Mobile Phone
• Mobile app available for download with play store
Agriculture Call Centre - 1920
• 20 call agents
• 'Elastix' software
• SMS service
▪ Skype video calls
▪ Database for KM
▪ Whatsapp / Viber
Use of Social Media
Present needs and gaps
▪ A conducive policy development for ICT for
Agriculture to streamline various initiatives in
agriculture sector
▪ Standardization of Data in Agriculture Sector
▪ Need a centralized database register all the
farmers in the country
▪ An ICT enabled Agriculture Advisory System to
strengthen the field level Agriculture Extension
Cont........
▪ Lack of real time information and availability of
market information for farmers and experts
▪ No spatial database
▪ Inadequate use of GPS / GIS technology in
Agriculture
▪ Mobile phone based services [SMS / Mobile Apps]
Sri Lanka E-Agriculture Strategy
• Developed by the participation of all the stakeholders in agriculture
Sri Lanka E-agriculture Strategy
• Analyzed present agriculture status
• Identified issues, challenges and priorities in agriculture
• Developed E-agriculture vision and strategy
• Published the strategy guide book in June 2016
• Approved by MOA
• Establishing the Leadership committee, steering committee and E-agriculture task force?
• Some e-solutions are in progress
A Centralized Database on Farmers
• Frequently updated database for Sri Lankan farmers
• It provides the platform for other MIS / Databases
• Variety of e-Services developed based this centralized db
• www.aginfo.lk
ICT enabled Agriculture Advisory System
•Devolution of Central Extension system to the provinces
•Provinces implement their own strategies which made the national extension system weak
• Further Farmer : ground level officer is very high
•Appointing new staff just wont work to strengthen the system
•Therefore, there is a huge necessity of a ICT enabled Agriculture advisory system accessible through multiple
Real-time Information
Availability
• Management Information Systems
Seed & Planting Material
Information System
Crop Forecasting
Information System
E-Soil Report and fertilizer recommendation information system
Electronic Pest surveillance system
E-phyto System
E-solutions proposing for 2017
▪ E-agriculture Advisory Services for Agriculture Extension
▪ E-market place
▪ ICT policy on data sharing, data classification, data formats, secure e-documents
▪ Research MIS
▪ Electronic pest surveillance system
▪ Soil testing results generating and fertilizer recommendation information system
▪ Import permit issuing system of NPQS
▪ Integrated NRMC information system
▪ Capacity development on e-agriculture
Thank you..