The Ministry of Agriculture ( si, කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යාංශය; ta, கமத்தொழில் அமைச்சு) is the

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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

responsible for

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. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other subjects which come under its purview. The current Minister of Agriculture is

Mahinda Amaraweera Mahinda Amaraweera ( Sinhala:මහින්ද අමරවීර,Tamil: மஹிந்த அமரவீர; born 12 February 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is currently the cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Wildlife, and Forest Resour ...

. The ministry's

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is B. Wijayaratne.

Ministers

The Minister of Agriculture is a member of the

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Key objectives

The key objective of the Ministry of agriculture is to: * Supportive agricultural policy for food and allied agricultural crops, * Established food and nutrition security, * Stable prices for agricultural products, * Efficiently coordinated paddy purchasing and marketing programme, * Timely implementation of projects, Increase production in selected crops, * Efficient and effective implementation of accelerated food production programme, * Efficient and effective use of foreign funds, * Customer friendly and result oriented administrative system, * Results-based management in entire government sector
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Secretaries

References

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Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

1931 establishments in Ceylon Agricultural organisations based in Sri Lanka Members of the Board of Ministers of Ceylon