Government to allocate Rs. 40 billion for crop damage compensation
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on January 25, 2022 - 11:00 am
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to allocate Rs. 40 billion to compensate paddy farmers for drop damages sustained during the last Maha Season, says Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage.
The proposal was presented by Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage.
Meanwhile, Minister Aluthgamage stated that 1 kilogram of paddy will be purchased by the Paddy Marketing Board for Rs. 75/-.
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PEANUTS! Isn’t it? Bad planning, bad implementation. Now 40 billion being dished out. Should have had the brain to implement changes gradually rather than shutting the door on the face without informing the farmers or at least should have stocked enough Organic Fertiliser first. Have you not got any offers from developed countries to go and settle there?
So easy,
It is paid in SL Rupees; just instruct the printer to print SL Rs 40 billion worth of notes.
We are however, Zimbabwe, already, where they carry currency notes in wheelbarrows when they shopping for household groceries.
INFLATION !!!!
The wheelbarrow may not be enough for us.
Maybe we hire a bullock cart to load the money when we go shopping.
Hope the bullock carts don’t block the Big Boss’s Motorcade when he is going to work to wreck the nation, even more.