{"id":1711,"date":"2026-05-24T03:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:52:37","slug":"special-onion-seed-production-village-to-be-established-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/24\/special-onion-seed-production-village-to-be-established-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Onion Seed Production Village to Be Established in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture has taken steps to establish a special seed production village to promote large onion seed production in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Director of the Department of Agriculture, P. Sisira Kumara, it has been decided to develop the Nochchaduwa agricultural settlement area in Anuradhapura as a major onion seed production village.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sri Lanka\u2019s annual requirement for big onions is around 325,000 metric tonnes, current local production stands at only 50,000 metric tonnes, according to official data.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this, the primary objective of the special programme is to increase domestic onion production to 70,000 metric tonnes within this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture expects that producing high-quality onion seeds locally will significantly reduce the large amount of foreign exchange currently spent on importing seeds from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The official inauguration ceremony of this special project is scheduled to take place tomorrow, Monday (25), Director P. Sisira Kumara further stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture has taken steps to establish a special seed production village to promote large onion seed production in the country. According to the Director of the Department of Agriculture, P. Sisira Kumara, it has been decided to develop the Nochchaduwa agricultural settlement area in Anuradhapura as a major onion seed production village. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}