A Study eco-friendly agricultural and practices for Green Economy: Based on Dompe Divisional Secretariat

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.