{"id":101477,"date":"2020-04-23T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101477"},"modified":"2020-04-23T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:22:28","slug":"guaranteed-price-for-14-main-crops-of-yala-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/23\/guaranteed-price-for-14-main-crops-of-yala-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Guaranteed price for 14 main crops of Yala Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a guaranteed price for 14 main crops of Yala Season with the intention of strengthening the income of local farmers by uplifting the country\u2019s agriculture sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Bandula Gunawardana stated this addressing the media briefing to announce Cabinet decisions today (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1\u0dd3\u0dba \u0dc3\u0d82\u0da0\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0d9a \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dba\u0ddd\u0da2\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0d85\u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dda\u0dbd\u0dca 1 \u0dc0\u0db1 \u0daf\u0dcf \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dca \u0db6\u0daf\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db1\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dc4\u0dc3\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8T3NEXbYPGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the Cabinet has also given its approval to procure crops from farmers if they are unable to sell the crops for the guaranteed price in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guaranteed prices for 14 main crops (per kilogram) are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maize \u2013 Rs. 50.00<br>Potato \u2013 Rs. 100.00<br>Big onion \u2013 Rs. 100.00<br>Red onion \u2013 Rs. 110.00<br>Orid Dhal \u2013 Rs. 220.00<br>Green gram (Mung bean) \u2013 Rs. 200.00<br>Peanut \u2013 Rs. 220.00<br>Dried chilli \u2013 Rs. 650.00<br>Soybeans \u2013 Rs. 125.00<br>Finger millet (Kurakkang) \u2013 Rs. 175.00<br>Cowpea \u2013 Rs. 220.00<br>Sesame \u2013 Rs. 200.00<br>Kollu \u2013 Rs. 250.00<br>Turmeric \u2013 Rs. 80.00<br>Ginger \u2013 Rs. 125.00<br>Garlic \u2013 Rs. 350.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a guaranteed price for 14 main crops of Yala Season with the intention of strengthening the income of local farmers by uplifting the country\u2019s agriculture sector. Minister Bandula Gunawardana stated this addressing the media briefing to announce Cabinet decisions today (23). Accordingly, the Cabinet has also given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}