President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has directed officials to allocate 11,000 acres of land, owned by the Kantale Sugar Company, to farmers for short-term crop cultivation.
These lands will be provided in plots not exceeding five acres each, and the President also instructed that a proper mechanism be developed for this process.
President Dissanayake issued these directives today (10) during a meeting with officials from the Ministries of Agriculture, Lands, Livestock, Irrigation, Fisheries, and Aquatic Resources at the Presidential Secretariat.
As the Minister-in-Charge, the President reviewed the performance and progress of the relevant Ministries and discussed upcoming plans.
Present at the meeting were Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Livestock, Irrigation, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources M.P.N.M. Wickramasinghe, and Director General of the Land Commission Hemasiri Liyanage, along with other senior officials.
