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Sri Lanka - Agriculture Sector Modernization Project : Environmental Assessment : Pest Management Plan

23 Nov 2020

The development objective of the Agriculture Sector Modernization Project for Sri lanka is to improve agriculture productivity, farmer organizational arrangements and achieve the adoption of innovative agriculture technologies and marketing practices in the project areas. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) move farmers away from pesticide dependent pest control practices and promote use of botanical pesticides and biological controls; (2) allocate adequate resources to implement National Plant Protection policy, increase Intergraded Pest Management (IPM) awareness among policy makers and farming community; (3) strengthen IPM research at National level and strengthen IPM extension; (4) create public awareness of the hazards of pesticide misuse through public awareness campaigns; (5) regular assessment of pesticide residuals in irrigated agricultural production systems and in harvested produce;and (6) monitoring of pesticide poisoning in farming and rural communities.
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Authors

Sri Lanka

Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Pest Management Plan
Document Date
2020-06-01
Loan no
58730
Originating Unit
GEN06 - ENR GP SAR
Published in
United States of America
Rel Proj ID
LK-Sri Lanka Agriculture Sector Modernization Project -- P156019
Total Volume(s)
1
Unit Owning
N/A
Version Type
Revised
Volume No
1

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