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.
Authors
- 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