Greenhouse agriculture, a way forward for Sri Lanka
Added on 22 January 2024
The stakeholders say their endorsement of enclosed or greenhouse cultivation is identifying as a solution to the current unrealistic and unaffordable prices of fresh produce that partly keep 24 percent of the country's population undernourished.
"Our cost of production at the Divulapitiya greenhouse facility is much lower than open-field cultivation. Our aim is to bring down fruit and vegetable prices at least by 50 percent over the next two years and increase farmer profitability through greenhouse agriculture," Lassana Group Chairman Dr. Lasantha Malavige said.
He shared his views at an event hosted to announce the partnership between Lassana Agi Innovation and India's Agriplast Protected Cultivation, a move that will strengthen the country's greenhouse infrastructure that is still in its infancy.
Since transforming the agriculture value chain is possible through adaptation of greenhouse technologies, Dr. Malavige added that the country needs more advanced solutions to be competitive globally, and to bring down these prices of fresh produce, to make it scalable.
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