The Ministry of Agriculture (; ) is the

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ministry of

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responsible for

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other subjects which come under its purview. The current Minister of Agriculture is President K. D. Lalkantha. The ministry's

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is D. P. Wickremasinghe.

Ministers

The Minister of Agriculture is a member of the

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. ;Parties

Key objectives

The key objective of the Ministry of agriculture is to: * Supportive agricultural policy for food and allied agricultural crops, * Established food and nutrition security, * Stable prices for agricultural products, * Efficiently coordinated paddy purchasing and marketing programme, * Timely implementation of projects, Increase production in selected crops, * Efficient and effective implementation of accelerated food production programme, * Efficient and effective use of foreign funds, * Customer friendly and result oriented administrative system, * Results-based management in entire government sector
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Secretaries

References

External links

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Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

1931 establishments in Ceylon Agricultural organisations based in Sri Lanka Members of the Board of Ministers of Ceylon