Sustainable agriculture workshop called "Regional Agricultural Transformation Training proposed under Erasmus+AGRHI project" was conducted to provide knowledge and skills on Modern Water and soil Management Practices; compost making & automation and IOT in Precision Agriculture to the farmers on 23.12.2025 from 8.30am-4.00pm at the Auditorium Faculty of Agriculture, Automated greenhouses, Farm Units, Faulty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna, Kilinochchi.
The aim of this workshop was to provide knowledge and skills on Modern Water and soil Management Practices; compost making & automation and IOT in Precision Agriculture to the farmers
As part of the event event, forest association, faculty of Agriculture (FORA) released its 1st News Letter, and world soil day was celebrated jointly by Department of Soil Science, Environmental Association of the Faculty of Agriculture (EAFA), and the Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna by organizing mini- exhibition and projecting soil management awareness video documentary made by students of EAFA.
Around 35 farmers from Northern Province participated were.
The Outreach Committee of the Faculty of Agriculture organized an workshop on SMART Agriculture i with the sponsorship of JICA PRECIDA – UOJ, in collaboration with ERASMUS+AGRHI PROJECT Sri Lanka and Commercial Bank PLC on June 27, 2025, at the main auditorium of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ariviyal Nagar; Farm units and Kilinochchi from 8.30 am – 4.15 pm. Around 100 Agriculture instructors of Northern Sri Lanka (50), commercial Bank beneficiary farmers (25) and youths from Kilinochchi, Mannar and Mullaitivu (25) were participated.
In this training automated Hi-Tech indoor farming provided by ERASMUS+AGRHI PROJECT, farm machineries, Drone technology were demonstrated at the Farm units of Faculty of Agriculture, outreach committee implementing SMART irritated farmer fields and commercial Bank, inthiagroup and faculty of Agriculture jointly implemented modernized paddy fields at Kilinochchi districts .......
"Mission towards Agriculture and youth empowerment"
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