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Eastern farmers go for potatoes, pineapples

For the first time in the Eastern Province farmers have started to grow potatoes and pineapple in addition to paddy cultivation, animal husbandry and minor infrastructure projects.

This is with community participation under the guidance and assistance from Jaica technical cooperation project for agricultural and rural development for rehabilitation and reconstruction, its officer in charge of Institutional Development Nanakubo told Daily News yesterday.

“We expected a yield of 10,000 kilograms of potatoes but received only six to seven thousand kilograms per acre. The project was started three years ago in the Trincomalee district in Kuchchaveli, Morawewa and Thampalagama within six Grama Niladhari Divisions. Already 18,000 households have benefitted from the project,” he said.

“We do not want the people to be dependent on others but to make them self-sufficient with the produce they were reaping using proper methods.

“Therefore we at the Jaica office at Trincomalee provides assistance to these communities with workshops and appropriate technologies to improve their produce, he said.”

“Under this Jaica Trincap project we select 10 to 15 farmers at the beginning in one division and then we expand it with time in a revolving system automatically so that the resources such as livestock or agricultural inputs pass on to the next group of the community,” he said.

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