{"id":153186,"date":"2025-11-20T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153186"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:51:53","slug":"premadasa-criticises-late-fertiliser-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/20\/premadasa-criticises-late-fertiliser-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Premadasa criticises late fertiliser payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa stated that providing fertiliser subsidies to farmers after the harvesting period instead of providing them at the proper time is a futile exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made this comment while attending the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that farmers are complaining that despite the government allocating Rs. 25,000 per hectare for cultivation, these fertiliser subsidy funds were not received on time for the current Maha season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further pointed out that a proper system is still not in place to provide these funds before the commencement of cultivation activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa stated that providing fertiliser subsidies to farmers after the harvesting period instead of providing them at the proper time is a futile exercise. He made this comment while attending the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability. He noted that farmers are complaining that despite the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153186","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=153186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153187,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153186\/revisions\/153187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}