Inauguration of Browns and SAPSA ‘Sisu Nena Pahana’

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The Sri Lanka School of Agriculture, Past Students General Association (SAPSA) initiated a program to conduct training programs for the students of the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture.

The first event of this series of seminars will be inaugurated on 30 May 2013 at the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture, Kundasale, with the patronage of Director General of Agriculture K.G. Sriyapala. The first ever training program is sponsored by the Brown & Company Plc.

Browns will conduct a full-day workshop on four-wheel tractors and use of other agricultural implements. The program will be conducted in both Sinhala and Tamil. The agricultural division of Brown & Company Plc. have designed this programme with practical and theoretical sessions. This will enhance the knowledge of the students on agricultural machinery and its usage in the field.

The program will be branded as “Browns - SAPSA, Sisu Nena Pahana”. Using of agricultural machinery and modern technology has become a must to enhance agricultural productivity in Sri Lanka and to get maximum yield from each unit in an area. This training program will fulfil a much needed requirement of the agricultural education sector. President of SAPSA Rohitha Nanayakkara said that the programme will be extended to the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture, Angun-ukolapellassa, Pelwehera, Vavuniya and Karapincha in the near future.

Continuous programmes will be organised to assist the students of the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture to mark 25th anniversary of SAPSA and also aim to coincide with the centenary celebrations of the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture founded in 1916.