The Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka (on behalf of the Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha)
Asked the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation to provide annual data from 2015 to the present on the percentage of employment in Sri Lanka’s agricultural sector. He also sought reasons for any decline in agricultural employment and asked whether programmes have been formulated to attract youth to the sector, requesting details if such programmes exist or reasons if they do not.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 asked the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House— (i) the percentage of employment in the agricultural sector in Sri Lanka from 2015 up to now, separately by year; (ii) if employment in the agricultural sector has declined during that period, the reasons for it; (iii) whether a programme has been formulated to attract youth to the agricultural sector; and (iv) if so, the details? (b) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Friday, 20 February 2026 ·No. 23331 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka (on behalf of the Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha). 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 February 2026. No. 23331. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29909