Sri Lanka, March 5 -- Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation Minister K.D. Lalkantha said that there is a 40% shortage of Agricultural Research Production Assistant Officers.
He said that this shortage has become a serious problem because they provide the data needed to prepare future plans.
The Minister made this statement while participating in a discussion in Kandy on the progress of the Central Provincial Council's Ministry of Agriculture, Minor Irrigation, Animal Production and Agrarian Development, Inland Fisheries, Environmental Affairs, Hindu Culture and Estate Infrastructure last year and the upcoming programmes for this year.
Speaking on this occasion, Minister K.D. Lalkantha said that one of the challenges we have in the...