Abstract:
The concept of technology transfer is not a new subject for developing countries. For many
decades this has been one of the major areas that many people have critically conferred. Sri
Lanka is not an exception in this regard and many countries have supported to extend this
important aspect of development for which Japan has contributed the utmost among all other
nations. In Sri Lanka, as an agro based country, when resources are concerned most of the
technology transfers have taken place in the area of agriculture or agriculture related. This
particular case study is one of the places that Japan has invested its technical assistance in Sri
Lanka. The present study mainly focused to see the impact of that facility to enhance the rural
development through the cooperative. The study has found that in improving productivity and
quality at the inception of the project the technical assistance was much important where
competitiveness and survival were concerned. However, long term sustainability and
development is a question in this place like in most of the other places. When value addition is
concerned these types of industries must be given priority not only by the governments but also
by the international donor agencies as domestic resource utilization by the cooperative is almost
100 percent.
