{"id":147798,"date":"2025-02-05T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147798"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:42:50","slug":"government-announces-paddy-purchasing-prices-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/05\/government-announces-paddy-purchasing-prices-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Government announces paddy purchasing prices (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government has officially announced the certified prices at which the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) will purchase paddy from farmers. The announcement was made at a special media briefing today (05) by Agriculture Minister K.D. Lal Kantha and Deputy Minister Namal Karunaratne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the revised procurement rates are:<br>Nadu paddy at Rs. 120 per kilogram<br>Samba paddy at Rs. 125 per kilogram<br>Keeri Samba paddy at Rs. 132 per kilogram<br>The Minister stated that only dry paddy will be purchased, emphasizing that the decision aims to ensure fair prices for farmers while maintaining market stability. The PMB is set to begin purchases at these rates immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0dd8\u0dc2\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db8 \u0daf\u0dd9\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dad\u0db8\u0dda\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u0dda\u0dc2 \u0db8\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0dc3\u0dcf\u0d9a\u0da0\u0dca\u0da1\u0dcf\u0dc0 | 2025-02-05\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDFQjxazy7E?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The government has officially announced the certified prices at which the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) will purchase paddy from farmers. The announcement was made at a special media briefing today (05) by Agriculture Minister K.D. Lal Kantha and Deputy Minister Namal Karunaratne. Accordingly, the revised procurement rates are:Nadu paddy at Rs. 120 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147798","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=147798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}