Sri Lanka, Sept. 25 -- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in collaboration with the Agriculture Department, concluded the five-day international training programme on the Market-Oriented Agriculture Promotion - Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion (SHEP) approach. The training programme was held in Gannoruwa, Peradeniya recently.

The event brought together 32 Government officials from ten Asian countries - Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Maldives and Tajikistan, aiming to foster the adoption of market-oriented agriculture with a focus on empowering smallholder horticulture farmers. The Sri Lanka-based training served as the field-based extension of a two-week theoret...