Empowering Families Through Nutrition: SARP’s One Dish Meal Program for Healthier Communities in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone
Strategic Planning Meeting Strengthens Alignment Between SARP and Department of Agriculture’s 2025 Program
Enhancing Inland Fisheries for Food Security and Livelihood Improvement under SARP
2025 April 29
IFAD Conducts Supervision Mission in Sri Lanka for Smallholder Agribusiness and Resilience Project (SARP)

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Smallholder Agribusiness & Resilience Project

Welcome to the Smallholder Agribusiness and Resilience Project (SARP)! We are delighted to have you here as we continue our journey of empowerment, sustainability, and inclusive growth in agriculture. SARP is committed to supporting smallholder farmers, strengthening their resilience to climate change, and promoting thriving agribusiness ventures across Sri Lanka’s dry zone. Through this website, you can explore our projects, stay informed with the latest news, events, updates, and information, and discover opportunities to engage with our work. You can also learn more about current vacancies and easily connect with us through our contact information page. Thank you for joining us on this journey. Together, we are cultivating not just crops, but resilience, opportunities, and a brighter future for farming communities.

About Us

Key Leaders

Minister
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land, and Irrigation.

Hon. K.D Lalkantha

Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land, and Irrigation.

Mr. D.P Wickramasinghe

Project Director
Smallholder Agribusiness and Resilience Project

Mr.Monty Ranatunga

Country Director
International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) for the
Maldives and Sri Lanka

Ms. Sherina Tabbassum

Our Services

The project's main components include capacity building for climate resilience and inclusive value chains, as well as investments in climate resilience and inclusive value chains, including the development of last-mile infrastructure. The project offers services to support these objectives.
Tank Rehabilitation Service
Tank rehabilitation is a crucial component of the SARP project, which aims to restore 173 small-scale tanks in the project areas. These tanks serve as vital water sources for agriculture in the dry zo
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Social and Institutional Services
The Smallholder Agribusiness Resilience Project (SARP) is a community resilience project that prioritizes agribusiness while equally emphasizing other sectors aligned with the United Nations' Sustaina
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Environmental Services
The project values environmental services and invests in sustainable agriculture to preserve andrestore natural resources while increasing the resilience of farming systems to a changing climate. Casc
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Entrepreneurship Services
The SARP project organizes Farm Business School (FBS) training for targeted communities with the aim of transforming them from ordinary farmers to entrepreneurs. Additionally, the project facilitates
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Agriculture and Livestock Services
The goal of SARP is to contribute to Sri Lanka’s smallholder poverty reduction and food security in the dry zone region. Under Agriculture & Livestock sector, climate smart agricultural technolo
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Our Key Points

Strengthening adaptive capacity of service providers and farmers to climate change
Strengthening capacity for inclusive value chain development
Investments for climate resilient production and infrastructure
Investment for inclusive value chain development
SARP will target three categories of households – the extreme rural poor, poor with potential to sell in local markets and more commercially oriented smallholder farmers.
Focus on 06 Districts in the North, North Central, Central, and North West provinces of the dry zone and The three river basins – the Malwathyu Oya, Mi Oya and Deduru Oya

Our Projects

Ongoing

Promoting Sustainable Chili Cultivation through Agricultural Field School Trainings
Agriculture and Live Stock
All Districts

Ongoing

Enhancing Dairy Processing Skills through Milk Value Addition Training under the Nutrient Preserving Techniques Series
Agriculture and Live Stock
All Districts

Ongoing

Empowering Farmers through the SARP Maize Cultivation Project
Agriculture and Live Stock
All Districts

Ongoing

SARP’s Farmer Field School Empowers Farmers with Hands-On Training in Machine Harvesting
FFS and FBS
All Districts

Ongoing

Promoting Nutrition through One Dish Meal Training: SARP’s Effort to Combat Malnutrition
Nutrition
All Districts

Ongoing

Enhancing Value Addition through Farmer Field School: Post-Harvest Training under SARP
FFS and FBS
All Districts

Ongoing

Promoting Healthy Eating Habits among Children: SARP’s Nutrition Awareness Initiative
Nutrition
All Districts

Empowering Communities through Backyard Poultry: SARP’s Initiative to Boost Egg Production and Reduce Poverty in Sri Lanka
Agriculture and Live Stock
All Districts

Ongoing

Rice Demonstration Plots Project
Agriculture and Live Stock
All Districts
 

Ongoing

Groundnut Cultivation Project – Puttalam, Kurunegala, Vavuniya, Mannar, and Anuradhapura
Agriculture and Live Stock
KurunegalaPuttalamAnuradhapuraMannarVavuniya
 

Ongoing

Mung Bean Cultivation Project
Agriculture and Live Stock
KurunegalaPuttalam
 

Ongoing

Black Gram Cultivation Project
Agriculture and Live Stock
Vavuniya
 

Ongoing

The Inland Fisheries Project
Agriculture and Live Stock
All Districts
 

Ongoing

Reforestation in watershed areas
Natural Resources Managment
All Districts
 

Ongoing

Tank Rehabilitation and Feeder Road Development
Tank Rehabilitation Works
All Districts
 

Get Our Climate & Value chain Information Updates

Selection of Company/firm/s, Cooperative Societies, Farmer Organizations for implementing market driven Agribusiness Development Public Private Producer Partnership Projects (4P) targeting smallholder farmers in SARP project locations.

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News & Events

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Long Esatablished

Empowering Families Through Nutrition: SARP’s One Dish Meal Program for Healthier Communities in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone
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Long Esatablished

Strategic Planning Meeting Strengthens Alignment Between SARP and Department of Agriculture’s 2025 Program
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Long Esatablished

Enhancing Inland Fisheries for Food Security and Livelihood Improvement under SARP
2025 April 29
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Find Latest Procurement

Procurement of backyard poultry sheds and equipment

Closing Date: 2025 April 30

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Hiring a Consultancy Firm for the Midline Survey of Small Holder Agribusiness and Resilience Project

Closing Date: 2025 March 17

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Calling Bid for Rehabilitation tanks in Anuradhapura -Madawachchiya

Closing Date:

 
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Invitation to Bid for Completion of Rehabilitation of Minor Irrigation Schemes in Vavuniya District Compleition of Rehabilitation of Minor Irrigation schemes in Vavuniya District

Closing Date: 2025 January 31

Closing on 17th February 2025
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Hiring of Vehicles for SARP project- BID AMENDMENT NOTICE

Closing Date: 2025 January 6

Closing on January 2oth
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