The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna
Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna raised concerns that Agricultural Research and Production Assistants have an excessive workload, including data entry for fertilizer subsidy processing. She said delays in data entry due to insufficient officers have prevented many farmers from receiving subsidies, and noted that field information collection was also hampered during Cyclone “Mitra”.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you, Hon. Deputy Minister.
¶ 02 My first supplementary: ARPAs carry a significant workload, including data entry necessary to process fertilizer subsidies. Many farmers have not yet received the subsidy because there are insufficient officers to enter data into the system; this duty also falls on ARPAs. During Cyclone “Mitra”, there were difficulties in collecting necessary field information as well.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 3 March 2026 ·No. 23335 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 March 2026. No. 23335. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/14792