Ministry of Agriculture (Sri Lanka)
agriculture ministry of Sri Lanka
The Ministry of Agriculture (Sinhala: කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්යාංශය; Tamil: கமத்தொழில் அமைச்சு) is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for agriculture. 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 President K. D. Lalkantha. The ministry's secretary is D. P. Wickremasinghe.
Ministers
The Minister of Agriculture is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.
Parties
Governors of British Ceylon
United National Party
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Eelam People's Democratic Party
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
National People's Power
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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