Workshop held in Colombo with the participation of media Jurnalist on role of sapp contributions for Sri Lankan agriculture and sustainable development goals. 80 media journalists participated for the workshop and Minister of Agriculture Hon: Mahinda Amaraweera was a chief guest for the occasion. Special thanks goes to Sri Lanka press institute and Department of government information Sri Lanka.

Smallholder Agribusiness Partnership Program (SAPP) funded by !FAD and implemented under MOA, with the assistance of Department of Animal Production and Health and other regional and national level agencies has initiated 10 projects under producer-public-private partnerships (4P) model covering 5977 smallholder farmers with the objective of increasing productivity and collection of milk through linking smallholder farmers to companies and assisting them by providing grant, credit and capacity building and institutional strengthening to improve their dairy farms. While implementing these projects, the SAPP conducted a workshop on dairy sector in January 2020 with the participation of stakeholders of the dairy sector. This workshop was attended by around 100 participants representing the public and private agencies and producers. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and prioritize major issues hindering enabling environment for dairy sector development and sustainability of national dairy value chain and to draw up a policy paper reviewing existing policies and present to the attention of all related policy makers for implementation.

Workshop on finding and recommendations of stock taking study on insurance and mitigation mechanism available for agriculture. SAPP observed the need of insurance coverage for the Agri. enterprises operated by smallholder farmers. Accordingly, the SAPP carried out a stock taking study on insurance and mitigation mechanism available for agriculture with the objective of collecting existing insurance and mitigation mechanism for agriculture and analyzing that information and provide suggestions to the SAPP how to incorporate such a mechanism into SAPP Project. Workshop held in 15th September 2022 with the participation of government representatives, financial institutions and SAPP program monitoring unit.

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) encourage farmers in rural areas to uplift their potential for quality of life through sharing there stories , giving access for know how, technology and market access among global communities. We still believe traditional communication tools can make a huge impact for sharing good stories of farmers and communities. “Story sharing” is a one of the great communication tool which we used many centuries in the world to build human values and relationships

රිචී ඩේරී පුද්ගලික සමාගම “කර්මාන්ත ශ්‍රී ලංකා 2022” NATIONAL INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDS – 2022 හි කර්මාන්ත විශිෂ්ටතා – කිරි සහ කිරි ආශ්‍රිත කර්මාන්ත මධ්‍යම හා විශාල කාණ්ඩයේ “ජාතික රිදී සම්මානයෙන් පිදුම් ලැබූ වගයි. කුඩාපරිමාණ කෘෂිවයාපාර සහභාගිත්වය වැඩසටහන යටතේ කිරි ආශ්‍රිත නිෂ්පාදන ප්‍රවර්ධන කිරීම සදහා කිරි ගොවීන් 350 කගේ දායකත්වයෙන් රු. මි. 56 ගැලපුම් ප්‍රදානයක් ලබාගෙන සාර්ථක ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ව්‍යාපෘතියකි. ව්‍යාපෘතියේ මුළු ආයෝජනය රු. මි. 142 ක් වේ.

Smallholder Agribusiness Partnership Program (SAPP) funded by IFAD and implemented under MOA, with the assistance of Department of Animal Production and Health and other regional and national level agencies has initiated 10 projects under producer-public-private partnerships (4P) model covering 5977 smallholder farmers with the objective of increasing productivity and collection of milk through linking smallholder farmers to companies and assisting them by providing grant, credit and capacity building and institutional strengthening to improve their dairy farms. Though there is a huge demand for fresh milk now in the country due to post-pandemic situations, SAPP observed that local companies have not shown much interest into fresh milk promotion and distribution. If the consumption of fresh milk (liquid milk) can be increased, importation of powdered milk can be reduced and thereby foreign exchange can be saved and general public can enjoy fresh milk with high nutrition value. With the promotion of SAPP, 02 Dairy Promoters (companies) have already started liquid milk distribution in main cities and is becoming popularized among general public. With those lessons learned, SAPP aim to bring SAPP dairy promoters, empowered dairy youth and other industry stakeholders to see the possibilities of promotion of liquid milk and distribution and also make a dialogue on other prevailing issues in the industry in a single forum.