Citation:Samarasinghe,S.A.C.S.1., Dr.Amarasinghe,A.G.(2019). A Study eco-friendly agricultural and practices for Green Economy: Based on Dompe Divisional Secretariat: The 3rd National Conference of Undergraduates on Environment and Development (NCUED 2019), 2019. Department of Geography, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., p.91.
Date:2020
Abstract:
The conference of RIO+20 conference held in 1992 in Brazil to lead the world
population for Eco-friendly programmer under the topic of “ Do We Include
to a Green Economy ” The main purpose of this conference was to emphasis
on how to gain to the contribution of world population for the green economy.
Therefore, Sri Lanka is an agricultural based country. The main reason for that
is Sri Lanka has the optimum physical factors that are beneficial for
agriculture. Sri Lanka is also moving towards a trend of eco-friendly
agriculture. The process of developing the economy which is a concept of the
“Five-Fold Process” implemented by the previous government has been
given priority. Thus today is trying to capture the market for the massive
demand internationally for eco-products via eco-friendly organic farming and
it has been contributed to ensuring the food sovereignty and safety of the
country. The main objectives of this study were to the identification of the ecofriendly
organic farming and the contribution of eco-friendly agriculture for
the green economy in the competitive economy. Dompe divisional secretariat
which is a backward development area in the core zone was selected as my
study area. Primary Secondary & tertiary data have been used for investigating
the eco-friendly agriculture. The sample of 50 family units was selected under
the simple random sample. Linear regression analysis was used to analyze the
data. Via this investigating agriculture could be identified as the main
economic activity of the 62% of the employees in Dompe Divisional
secretariat. Form them about 12% of the employees aware of the concept of a
green economy. About 82% of the employees have a sound knowledge
regarding eco-friendly farming. The contribution of eco-friendly agriculture
to the green economy is about 3%. The economy can be tuned up by capturing
the market for the international massive demand for eco-agriculture products.
Further, the environment sustainability can also be ensured.