Donation of rain shelters to onion seed farmers by KOPIA

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Korea Program on International Agriculture (KOPIA) Sri Lanka Centre donated Korean rain shelters to 80 Sri Lankan farmers in Bulnewa and Galenbindunu wewa villages, Anuradhapura, this month. The shelters, which can cover a total area of 20,000 square metres, will be used to protect onion seeds from rain during the flowering season. In addition, KOPIA Sri Lanka Centre is also planning to hand over small-scale farming equipment and machines such as Farm Masters, Rotaries and Vinyl-Mulching Machine, to the farmers. The donation was made as part of the project, ‘Seed Multiplication and Cropping Technology Development for Onion Production of Sri Lanka’.

Under the project, KOPIA Sri Lanka Centre had provided two hectares of rain shelters to farmers in Galenbindunu wewa, Mannar and Hambantota during the past two years. The Centre also dispatched Korean onion experts to Sri Lanka, aimed to transfer new technology to Sri Lankan farmers and officials in the agricultural sector. With this purpose, they organised workshops and training programs.

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KOPIA Sri Lanka Centre was established in December 2011 to support agricultural development in Sri Lanka, by the Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, in cooperation with the Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Agriculture.