Company agrees to provide good stock of seed potatoes in place of spoilt potatoes

The Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera, has been informed to investigate the Department of Agriculture regarding the failure of a stock of seed potatoes stored in Kuppaveli area of Jaffna to be distributed to the farmers for free cultivation due to fungus.

Accordingly, it was also revealed that the main reason for the spoilage of these seed potatoes was due to the water seeping into the warehouse due to the rain that had fallen in the Jaffna area in the recently.

This stock of seed potatoes has been imported from Australia by the Agriculture Sector Modernization Project under the Ministry of Agriculture and they have been imported by a private company.

About 20 metric tons of seed potatoes were stored there to be distributed free of charge among the potato cultivating farmers in Jaffna. The amount spent for that is 10 million rupees.

However, yesterday (28) the officials of the Agriculture Sector Modernization Project informed the Ministry of Agriculture that the relevant company agreed to provide an additional stock of seed potatoes suitable for cultivation free of charge in place of this stock of spoiled seed potatoes. Officials of the Agriculture Sector Modernization Project also said that arrangements have been made to distribute the stock among the farmers as soon as they are received.

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