Sri Lanka Launches Digital Foundations for a Data-Driven Agriculture Sector
Sri Lanka marked a major milestone in the digital transformation of its agriculture sector with the official launch of the Agriculture Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework, Agriculture Interoperability Framework (IF), Departmental Data Sharing Policies of the Department of Agriculture, and CROPIX—a national digital platform for crop data and evidence-based decision-making.
The high-level launch event was held yesterday at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, under the patronage of the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation. The event was co-hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding support from the Gates Foundation.
The event was attended by the Hon. Deputy Minister of Digital Economy Eng. Eranga Weeraratna, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy, Mr. Vimlendra Sharan, FAO Representative for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Secretaries of the Ministries of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigatioand Digital Economy, Heads of Departments, and senior officials from public and private sector institutions.
The Agriculture Enterprise Architecture Framework provides a strategic blueprint to align people, processes, data, and technology across agricultural institutions, ensuring that digital investments are coordinated, interoperable, scalable, and future-ready. Complementing this, the Agriculture Interoperability Framework establishes common standards and protocols to enable secure, seamless, and trusted data exchange across systems and institutions.
Together with the Departmental Data Sharing Policies, these frameworks address long-standing challenges such as fragmented data systems, limited data sharing, and institutional silos—forming the backbone of Sri Lanka’s emerging Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Agriculture.
At the operational level, CROPIX serves as the national digital platform for the Department of Agriculture, integrating crop registries, cultivation and production data, forecasting tools, extension services, and near real-time field reporting to support planning, policy formulation, and service delivery.
This landmark launch represents not merely the introduction of new digital systems, but the beginning of a collaborative national journey towards a data-driven, farmer-centric, and resilient future for Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector, where technology and trusted data underpin informed decision-making and improved services for farmers.
