{"id":16862,"date":"2022-01-24T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16862"},"modified":"2024-05-14T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T03:20:03","slug":"if-you-cant-grow-paddy-grow-green-gram-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16862","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t grow paddy, grow green gram \u2013 The President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to cultivate green gram in paddy fields where paddy cannot be grown.<br \/>The government has also decided to assist in the cultivation of green gram as a supplementary crop during the inter-season and in paddy lands where paddy cannot be cultivated.<br \/>President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has taken this decision considering the information received during his visit to observe the duties of the Agrarian Development Department.<br \/>The President has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to farmers to obtain seeds for green gram cultivation as a supplementary crop in paddy fields where paddy cannot be cultivated during the Yala season and due to lack of irrigation facilities.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-16862' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=16862&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-16862' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-16862' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-16862' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-16862'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-16862' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-16862 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to cultivate green gram in paddy fields where paddy cannot be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,104,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-environment","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24151,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862\/revisions\/24151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}