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The Hon. Nishantha Perera

Jathika Jana balawegaya· Galle· 8 July 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question: Tea Replanting and Infilling (2014-2018)

Agriculture
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Hon. Nishantha Perera asked the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure to provide year-by-year data for 2014 to 2018 on the targeted and actual extent of tea land re-cultivated. He also requested details on whether subsidies were paid for such re-cultivation in first, second, and third instalments, and the manner of those payments, or reasons if they were not paid.

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¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure:

¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House - (i) the extent of land targeted for re-cultivation of tea from 2014 to 2018 and the actual extent of land that had been re-cultivated with tea, in hectares, separately for each year; (ii) whether subsidies were paid in the form of first, second, and third instalments for the lands re-cultivated with tea; and (iii) if so, the manner in which those instalments were paid?

¶ 03 (b) If not, why?

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Hansard, Tuesday, 8 July 2025 ·No. 1752482630017444 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Nishantha Perera. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 July 2025. No. 1752482630017444. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/10871