{"id":6841,"date":"2019-07-16T16:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2019-07-16T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:10:29","slug":"paddy-purchasing-in-northern-province-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/paddy-purchasing-in-northern-province-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy purchasing in Northern Province begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) has purchased 11,642 metric tons (MT) of paddy in the Northern Province under the government certified price at a cost of Rs. 447 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A kilo of Samba paddy has been purchased for Rs. 41 and a kilo of Nadu for Rs. 38.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The total quantity purchased from the Kilinochchi District is 3,185 metric tons. The expenditure incurred was Rs. 122 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From farmers in Vavuniya district 3,182 metric tons of paddy were purchased at a cost of Rs 122 million, 3,524 MT of paddy has been purchased from Mullaitivu District at Rs 135 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From Mannar district 821 MT of paddy has been purchased at a cost of Rs. 33 million while from Jaffna district 930 MT of paddy has been purchased at a cost of Rs. 35 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The stock of paddy purchased from the Paddy Marketing Board last month has been stored at 25 government stores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Paddy purchasing has increased by 97% compared to the past year, Northern Province Manager of the Paddy Marketing Board Shantha Kumara says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) has purchased 11,642 metric tons (MT) of paddy in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}