Buffer stock of 330,000 bushels of seed paddy - Agriculture
Minister
Sandasen Marasinghe, Irangika Range and Disna
Mudalige
The government has a stock of 330,000 bushels of seed paddy in stores
to be used in case of a natural disaster in the next Maha season,
Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena stated in Parliament
yesterday.
The minister further said that a stock of 330,000 bushels of seed
paddy which is in the possession of the government at present is
sufficient to cultivate the 165,000 acres of paddy lands.
The minister was answering an oral question raised by UNP MP Dayasiri
Jayasekera. "In keeping with the state policy, the government organises
the production and supply of seed jointly with the private sector," he
further said. |