Yala fetches over 111,000 MTs of paddy

The Government has purchased 111,256 metric tons of paddy during the last Yala season at a price of Rs 30 per kilo of samba and Rs 28 per kilo of nadu, Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene told Parliament yesterday. “We have spent Rs 5,650 million to purchase paddy during that season,” he further said.

”The State granaries have a stock of 257,000 metric tons of paddy purchased during this year’s Yala and Maha seasons, he further said.

All the stocks in the State granaries belonged to the Government, he noted.

The Minister said this in response to a question raised by UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekera.