{"id":6495,"date":"2023-08-20T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2023-08-20T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T12:11:04","slug":"sri-lanka-rules-out-rice-shortage-despite-crop-loss-over-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/sri-lanka-rules-out-rice-shortage-despite-crop-loss-over-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka rules out rice shortage despite crop loss over drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka has ruled out a shortage of rice until the harvest of the next cultivation season despite the impact of dry weather on the current crop, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoting Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, the statement said&nbsp; that 503,000 hectares of paddy fields have been cultivated in the current season, with some of them affected by drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said there will not be a shortage of rice in the future as a successful harvest was received in the last cultivation season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan meteorology department has forecasted that the dry spell will continue till the end of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rice is the staple food of Sri Lanka and is cultivated in two seasons a year in the South Asian country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has ruled out a shortage of rice until the harvest of the next cultivation season despite the impact of dry weather on the current crop, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on Sunday. Quoting Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, the statement said&nbsp; that 503,000 hectares of paddy fields have been cultivated in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":6496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}