ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka launched a raft of instruments and a nationwide digital platform for cultivation information and data-driven choice making with the help of Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) and Gates Basis.
The federal government on Thursday launched the Agriculture Enterprise Structure Framework, Agriculture Interoperability Framework, Information Sharing Insurance policies, and CROPIX, a nationwide digital platform for crop information and decision-making.
The launch marked the formal introduction of a unified digital basis designed to modernize agricultural governance, enhance service supply, and allow evidence-based decision-making throughout the sector, the FAO stated in an announcement collectively issued with the federal government and Gates Basis.
“Collectively, these initiatives kind the spine of Sri Lanka’s rising Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for agriculture, addressing long-standing challenges associated to fragmented information programs, institutional silos, and restricted information sharing throughout authorities entities,” it stated.
The Agriculture Enterprise Structure Framework offers a strategic blueprint to align folks, processes, information, and know-how throughout agricultural establishments, guaranteeing that digital investments are interoperable, scalable, and future-ready.
Complementing this, the Agriculture Interoperability Framework and newly launched Information Sharing Insurance policies allow safe, standardised, and trusted change of agricultural information throughout ministries, departments, and digital platforms, the FAO stated.
CROPIX operationalises the structure and interoperability frameworks by integrating nationwide crop registry, cultivation and manufacturing information, forecasting instruments, extension providers, close to real-time subject reporting, APIs and Open Information.
Via its net platform and cell functions, CROPIX connects farmers, extension officers, planners, and policymakers round a single, trusted supply of agricultural information.
“What we’re witnessing at present is the extension of Sri Lanka’s Digital Public Infrastructure into one in all our most important sectors,” Hans Wijayasuriya, Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economic system was quoted as saying on the launch.
“By making use of enterprise structure, interoperability, and trusted data-sharing rules to agriculture, we’re guaranteeing that digital transformation delivers actual worth on the bottom.”
“This method permits scalable, safe programs that join farmers to establishments, information to selections, and coverage to affect,” he stated.
Vimlendra Sharan, FAO Consultant for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, on the launch stated by the brand new initiative Sri Lanka is positioning itself to reply extra successfully to local weather dangers, enhance service supply, cater to dynamic market calls for and make evidence-based selections that go away no farmer behind. (Colombo/January 22/2026)
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