SAPSA launches Sisu Nena Pahana

Sri Lanka School of Agriculture Past Students General Association (SAPSA) has initiated to conduct training programmes for the students of Sri Lanka School of Agriculture. The first event of this series of seminars will be inaugurated on May 30, 2013 at the Sri Lanka school of Agriculture Kundasale with the patronage of Director General of Agriculture K.G. Sriyapala.

The first ever training programme has been fully sponsored by the Brown & Company Browns will conduct a full day workshop on four wheel tractors and use of other agricultural implementations. The programme will be conducted in Sinhala and Tamil languages. Agricultural division of the Brown and Company Plc has designed this programme with practical and theoretical sessions. This will enhance the knowledge of the students on agricultural machinery and its usage in the field.

The programme will be branded as "Browns- SAPSA, Sisu Nena Pahana". Using of agricultural machinery and modern technology has become a must to enhance the agricultural productivity in Sri Lanka and to get maximum yield out of a unit area. This training programme will fulfil a much needed requirement of the agricultural education sector.

President of SAPSA Rohitha Nanayakkara said that the programme will be extended to Sri Lanka School of Agriculture Angunukolapellassa, Pelwehera, Vavunia and Karapincha in the near future. Continuous programmes will be organized to assist the students of the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture to mark the 25th anniversary SAPSA and also aiming the centenary celebrations of the Sri Lanka school of agriculture founded in 1916.