The Hon. (Dr.) Susil Ranasinghe - Deputy Minister of Land and Irrigation
On behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation, the Deputy Minister stated that about 100,000 cattle are present in the relevant DS Divisions and that sufficient grasslands are available for them. He said around 6,000 acres of these grasslands are currently under institutions such as the Department of Forest Conservation and the Mahaweli Authority, and must be released under the relevant legal frameworks before being gazetted as grasslands. Necessary action to complete that process is in progress.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation, I provide the following answers.
¶ 02 (a) (i) Yes. Approximately 100,000 head of cattle are within the said DS Divisions. There are sufficient grasslands within those DS Divisions for those animals.
¶ 03 (ii) Yes.
¶ 04 (b) (i) As about 6,000 acres of the said grasslands are managed by institutions such as the Department of Forest Conservation and the Mahaweli Authority, they must first be released within those institutions’ legal frameworks, after which they should be gazetted as grasslands. Necessary action is in progress.
¶ 05 (ii) After releasing them within the legal frameworks of the Department of Forest Conservation, the Mahaweli Authority, etc., it is expected to gazette them as grasslands.
¶ 06 (c) Does not arise.
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