Ministry of Agriculture (Sri Lanka)
The Ministry of Agriculture is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for agriculture. 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 and State Minister of Agriculture are Duminda Dissanayake and Wasantha Aluvihare respectively. The ministry's secretary is B. Wijayaratne.
Ministers
The Minister of Agriculture is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.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.
Secretaries
Name | Took office | Left office | Title | Refs |
Agriculture Secretary | ||||
Irrigation and Agriculture Secretary | ||||
Agriculture Secretary |