{"id":147595,"date":"2025-01-25T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T00:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147595"},"modified":"2025-01-25T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T00:15:01","slug":"jnp-queries-why-govt-is-yet-to-declare-a-minimum-purchase-price-for-paddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/25\/jnp-queries-why-govt-is-yet-to-declare-a-minimum-purchase-price-for-paddy\/","title":{"rendered":"JNP queries why Govt. is yet to declare a minimum purchase price for paddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy the Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) raised concerns over the failure on the part of the government to declare a minimum purchase price for paddy and asked whether it had not been done as a help for the millers who helped the ruling party during the elections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JNP Farmers&#8217; Wing leader Karunathilaka Herath said although President Anura Kumara Dissanayake claims to be the son of a farmer, a solution had not been offered yet to the paddy crisis. He said the government had knelt before not only multi-national companies but also five leading millers in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A few months have lapsed after the government was formed. It came with a series of promises to address farmers&#8217; issues. Like the previous governments, the present government is also letting the farmers down. The government does not seem to be working with any clear-cut policies. Paddy harvesting has already begun. Today, farmers are in the lurch without a proper price for their produce,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said paddy prices vary from district to district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the Daily Mirror The Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) raised concerns over the failure on the part of the government to declare a minimum purchase price for paddy and asked whether it had not been done as a help for the millers who helped the ruling party during the elections.&nbsp; JNP Farmers&#8217; Wing leader Karunathilaka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147595","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=147595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}