Founded in 2017

Abba Agri Story

A lush tropical island lying practically in the center of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka remains one of Asia’s overlooked gems – a status that is slowly but rightly changing. Monsoon winds, driving against Sri Lanka’s peaks, the diverse and unique climatic, environmental and soil factors support lush vegetation around the island.

Abba Agri Consultancy sensed and identified these unique factors to formulate practical and sustainable solutions for emerging issues in the field of agriculture in Sri Lanka. Founded in February 2017 and expanded its operations in January 2018, Abba Agri has had the privilege of working with clientele around the country and Internationally over the past several years of business and has been able to provide successful service to a wide variety of clients ranging from smallholder farmers to multinational companies creating many employment opportunities.

Meet Our CEO & Founder, Anuradha Ranasinghe!

Since he was a small kid, Anuradha has had the passion for agriculture and had engaged in many agricultural activities throughout school and university days. Upon graduation in 2017 and having recognized and accepted the challenges of being an entrepreneur, he founded ABBA Agri Consultancy to provide farm management and consultancy services.
Anuradha’s personal interest also centers on permaculture, and regenerative agriculture practices which is the holistic approach of creating a healthy soil to grow a healthy plant free from pests and diseases. He is dedicated to train smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka on crop diversification to generate different revenue cycles per year to uplift their livelihood without depending on a seasonal income. He even has his very own family run tropical permaculture garden, growing various types of native fruits, yams and vegetables.

Overseas Trainings and Participations

✅ 2020 Keynote Speaker, International Tea Symposium, Mandalay University, Myanmar.

✅ 2019 Consultant, Permaculture garden design, Canberra, Australia.

✅ 2019 Training, IFOAM Asia Organic Foundation Course, Goesan County, South Korea.

✅ 2018 Training, Building Agri Business Relations for Sustainable Profit, Nakuru, Kenya.

✅ 2018 Conference, Biofach 2018 Exhibition and Conference, Nurenberg, Germany.

✅ 2017 Internship, MultiNational Exchange for Sustainable agriculture, California, USA.

✅ 2017 Conference, 19th IFOAM Organic World Congress, New Delhi, India.

✅ 2017 Conference, International Permaculture conference and Convergence, Hyderabad, India.

✅ 2016 Consumer Education Course, Consumer Association of Penang, Penang,Malaysia.

✅ 2014 Leadership Development Program in Social Change, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Agriculture sector in the whole world is in distress due to climate change and regenerative AGRICULTURE and organic farming IS THE FUTURE to mitigate the adverse impacts. Increasing the land extent and inputs is not the solution to increase the productivity to cater the growing demand. We need to focus on modern and precise technology to increase yields, but as a small island nation, we need to incorporate more ancestral knowledge and traditional farming concepts to develop current farming practices to obtain a better yield per land extent.

“ Regenerative Agriculture is the future AND THAT FUTURE IS HERE ”

– Anuradha Ranasinghe –

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Owita Organics

Owita Organics was founded and operated by Directors of Vihangun Ariyarathne, Kushan Amarasinghe, Mahesh Wickramasinghe, Samitha Jayaweera and Anuradha Ransinghe, launched in 2017 as a retail organic market platform to connect organic farmers and consumers. It was founded identifying the need for certified organic food for the increased local demand at an affordable price.

Main role of Owita Organics is to act as a fare networking platform connecting organic farmers who struggled to find accessible markets to sell while linking consumers who complained that reliable organic products were not available to purchase from local markets. It’s a common umbrella that provides shelter to organic producers and consumers in the country.

Good Market Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

The Good Market Organic Participatory Guarantee System-PGS (www.goodmarket.global) was started in 2013 by producers and consumers that want to make organic more accessible and affordable in Sri Lanka. PGS is an organic verification system that is well-suited to local markets and short supply farms who cannot cover the cost of export-level third-party certification. Producers and consumers volunteer their time to develop and maintain standards and systems, inspect farms, and ensure that products are organic. The Good Market Organic PGS is based on the organic standards of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). In 2016, it officially became an IFOAM recognized PGS. Since 2013, Abba Agri’s CEO & Founder Anuradha has played different roles as a volunteer evaluator, volunteer coordinator and today working as a technical pool member providing technical inputs to develop the organic certification process for the Good Market PGS Committee.