The Hon. Kins Nelson
Hon. Kins Nelson raised a supplementary question on black gram cultivation, noting that national demand is about 25,000 metric tons, with imports accounting for 15 to 25 per cent. He asked whether the Government would prioritise allocating secure land and providing fertilizer, including the fertilizer subsidy, to farmers currently cultivating on encroached lands in order to reduce imports.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, my first supplementary question is this.
¶ 02 Hon. Minister, the national requirement of black gram is about 25,000 metric tons. The cultivated extent is 9,710 hectares. We import between 15% and 25%. My question is this: the farmers cultivating black gram do not have adequate land. They cultivate on encroached lands due to necessity. We can reduce imports by about 15% if we allocate proper land and provide required fertilizer. Farmers have not even received the fertilizer subsidy, Hon. Deputy Minister. Without doing that, do you have a special programme, on a priority basis, to provide these farmers with definite land? Can land be allocated to them?
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 ·No. 23618 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Kins Nelson. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 May 2026. No. 23618. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19180