11,000 acres from Kantale Sugar Company to farmers for short-term crops

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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has directed officials to allocate 11,000 acres of land, owned by the Kantale Sugar Company, to farmers for short-term crop cultivation.

These lands will be provided in plots not exceeding five acres each, and the President also instructed that a proper mechanism be developed for this process.

President Dissanayake issued these directives yesterday during a meeting with officials from the Agriculture, Lands, Livestock, Irrigation, Fisheries, and Aquatic Resources Ministries at the Presidential Secretariat.

As the Minister-in-Charge, the President reviewed the performance and progress of the relevant Ministries and discussed upcoming plans.