National Policy and Strategy on Cleaner Production for Agriculture Sector 2012.

The National Policy and Strategy on Cleaner Production for Agriculture Sector 2012 is a continuous application of an integrated and preventive environmental strategy to processes, products, and services, to increase overall efficiency, and reduce risks to humans and the environment. Vision Sustainable agriculture for national prosperity. Its Mission is: to achieve food security of the nation through ecologically sound, economically viable and socially acceptable agricultural systems. Policy Goals: Ensure food and nutrition security to the nation; Improve eco- efficiency in the entire agriculture sector; ensure efficient and effective management of natural resources; Achieve sustainable socio- economic development in Sri Lanka.
The Policy objectives are: ensure standard quality and required quantities of foods and other agricultural products; promote ecologically sound agricultural practices; enhance income and quality of life of the farming community; promote efficient utilization of inputs and natural resources for economically viable food production. Policy Statements: enhance capacity of entire agricultural sector to improve quality of production processes and products by application of Cleaner Production practices; promote sustainable consumption and production practices by application of Cleaner Production practices considering the entire supply chain and value chain management; adapt sustainable land management practices in agricultural sector; ensure efficient use of water resources in the agricultural sector; apply life cycle approach to reduce overuse/misuse of resources/raw material and waste generation; develop appropriate market based instruments to improve the sustainable productivity of the agricultural practices; prevent usage of POPS (persistent organic pollutants) pesticides and other ecologically harmful materials; take measures to reduce/mitigate environmental pollution due to agricultural practices.
Strategies: enhance public awareness and knowledge management on sustainable food production, utilizing ecologically sound agricultural practices and consumption of clean products; promote integrated water management practices; prevent/minimize post harvesting losses with environmentally sound packaging, storage and transportation; establish integrated food production and processing industries to ensure optimum utilization of resources/wastes throughout the life cycle; promote value chain management from crop growing to consumers to improve the productivity, nutrition value and quality of the agricultural products; promote ecologically friendly integrated farming system management practices; apply agricultural practices that prevent/mitigate environmental pollution; develop and implement regulatory and Market Based Instruments to facilitate productivity improvement in the agricultural sector; establish monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to evaluate performance of the implementation and take measures to address the policy failures and institutional failures; establish information systems on best environmental practices and appropriate environment technologies; promote appropriate land use practices and adoption of soil conservation techniques.