The Digital Economic Strategy Development Project for Sri Lanka farmer’s insurance scheme has not been properly utilised by the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board causing a heavy loss to the state, a government audit inspection revealed.
The Digital Economic Strategy Development Project for Sri Lanka was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Under this project, the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board had implemented a pilot project based on Gampaha and Badulla Districts to build a database of farmers' information, to identify farm lands for Sri Lanka and to digitise the information, the audit report revealed.
Even though the database prepared by the Department of Agrarian Development was intended to be used for the Gampaha District, the Board was unable to apply that database directly to the project implementation, it added.
Out of 80,006 plots of land in 26 Agrarian Service Centers in the Gampaha District, only 10,825 plots of land had been mapped due to protests of Agricultural Research Officers and financial difficulties occurred.
Out of 27,139 plots of land in 10 Agrarian Services Centers in the Badulla District, only 9,995 plots had been mapped and completed.
If this project is ceased halfway, implementing only within a period of nearly 7 months, the expenditure made amounting to LKR 9.61 million could be wasted, officials said.
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