Abstract:
Sri Lanka is a country which is famous from its history for cinnamon and it is one of
the major export products which generates significant amount of foreign income.
Export market of Sri Lankan cinnamon is established in Mexico, USA, Central
American and European countries. In the current competitive world, hygienic issue is
a sever challenge to both the industry and the economy. Since the cinnamon
production process is traditional over one hundred years old, the current hygienic
issues have a great impact on the industry which is under discussion at government
ministry level.
A sample of cinnamon peelers in the industry along with small home based
processing centre owners were selected for the survey and interviews respectively
and all the findings were done by covering all the created objectives of the study.
Data gathered from observations were also considered for explanations. Collected
data was analysed to identify project management challenges hence the improvement
of hygiene of cinnamon production process in home based small processing centres
can be considered as a project by enforcing duration and a budget.
Nine challenges were found and some of them are as challenges in facilitating formal
education to workers to have a better understanding of the hygiene requirement,
training and convincing workers and owners to use sanitized tool cleaning methods,
dust controlling methods, improved pest controlling methods and practice personal
hygiene methods
