SRI LANKA – “We lost all our resources due to the war. Now we do not have jobs to earn money. Farming is our only source of livelihood–and out only alternative is ecological agriculture, which does not require money for inputs.” These are the words of a farmer in Vavuniya, in Northern Sri Lanka. He […]
In Samagi Kandy District in Sri Lanka, a group of women owns a small plot of land called Kandyan Home Garden. Through MTCP2, the women were encouraged to organize themselves and asked to maximize the land and nature. MTCP2 programme helped them build confidence in leadership and gave them trainings to add values to their […]
The farmers in Sri Lanka, like of most of their counterparts in the Asian region, engage only in primary production. Whether they are paddy, vegetable, grains, spices or milk, the farmers are used to selling their production in bulks to the merchants who are a part of well-organized marketing networks. As experienced by all the […]