Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Namal Karunaratne announced that Rs. 4,983 million has been paid as compensation to 67,460 paddy farmers whose farmlands were destroyed by Cyclone Ditwah.
Nearly Rs. 5 billion paid to paddy farmers affected by Cyclone Ditwah
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