On the instructions of His Excellency the President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a special survey was conducted today (12.12.2021) at 307 Olupeliyawa and 308 Waduressa Grama Niladhari Divisions in the Nikaweratiya Divisional Secretariat Division to identify “the problems of the farmers who cultivate paddy as their main livelihood”.
An organic fertilizer production project was also observed here and the purpose of this observation is to report the real problems of the farming community to His Excellency the President.
Assistant Secretary to the President Tharaka Sumathipala, Assistant Secretary to the President Thilini Thushara and Assistant Secretary to the President Priyanka Udagedara represented the Presidential Secretariat.
There are 06 farmers who cultivate fallow paddy lands, a farmer who cultivates local traditional paddy, a farmer who cultivates paddy fields with rain water, a farmer who cultivates organic paddy, two farmers who cultivate ordinary paddy and large scale paddy. Issues were discussed with.
Mr. Sampath Jayasundara, Agricultural Research Production Assistant in charge of the domain fully assisted in identifying the relevant farmers.
The survey was supervised by Nikaweratiya Divisional Secretary JMIRK Jayasundara and was attended by Assistant Divisional Secretary Priyantha Sri Wickramasinghe, Agriculture Development Officer Nalika Bandara and Grama Niladhari Salinda Pathirana in charge of the division.
