Lessons Learned from the ASEAN Learning Route on Agricultural Cooperatives: Strengthening the Role of Agricultural Cooperatives to Address the Challenges and and Opportunities of the ASEAN Economic Community for the Benefit of the Smallholder Farmers
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 […]
The Matale district in Sri Lanka is famous in the country for cultivating spices. In Kambiadiya village in Matale, most of the residents are also engaged in agriculture. Additionally, the women in the village are engaged in home gardening to help provide for their family needs. Their gardens are collectively referred to as “Kandyan Home […]