10th February 2023 18:57:33 Hours
Troops of the Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestock, formally raised on 4th January 2021 and presently 19 Army farms are handling under the direct supervision of the Directorate of Agriculture and Livestock after established Green Agriculture Steering Committee (GASC) by Lieutenant General Vikum Liyanage, Commander of the Army in order to supplement and promote the island’s food security programme.Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestock has already started the cultivation of all types of crops in a vast area of the island by continuing the cultivation war day by day and is taking all necessary steps to develop these activities in the future as well.
In line with above programmes as per the guidance of Major General WBSM Abeysekera RSP VSV USP the Director General Financial Management(DGFM) of the Army and Colonel Commandant of Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestock with the instructions of Director Agriculture and Livestock Brigadier Arosha Rajapaksha RSP
most recently, the Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestock was able to start several new army farms Pangolla,Dayagama,Ridiyagama,Manikpalama,Weeravila and Iranamadu.
With that Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestock reaped the new bountiful harvest at all army farms around the country which belongs to Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestock.