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A large sum has been allocated under the last budget for the development of Agrarian Service Centres to make them guardians of the farming community and achieve sustainable development goals, according to Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa.
The Agrarian Services Department which was established in October 1957 has 23 Agrarian Services Assistant Commissioners working in its 557 Agrarian Service Centres.
The tasks of the Agrarian Assistant Commissioners include strengthening farms, managing agricultural lands, re-cultivating abandoned paddy lands, repairing small irrigation channels, improving the economy of the farming community and other objectives relevant to the Agrarian Services Act activated under Agrarian Service Centres. Currently the Department’s employees number nearly 12,000.
Speaking further the Minister said that since the department covers a large area the Government’s aim is to make Agrarian Service Centre institutions that will meet agricultural needs of farmers island-wide. (info.gov.lk)
