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Mano Ganesan: Food Insecurity
(www.factcheck.lk , 1/12/2023)
CORRECT: Food insecurity in Sri Lanka is highest in the estate sector at 51%, while it is 43% in the urban sector and 34% in the rural sector. The World Bank has reported that the country’s poverty rate has climbed to 26% ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: COVID-19 Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/14/2021)
FALSE:The Government has spent more than Rs. 700 billion on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and providing relief to people and that it is exactly half of the overall income of this country last year which was Rs. 1,380 ...
Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)
TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021
Nimal Siripala De Silva: Tea Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/4/2021)
TRUE: Tea export volumes in 2020 declined by 9.2% or 27 million kilos to 265.5 million kilos from the previous year, whilst in value terms, the performance was down by Rs. 10.4 billion or 4.3% to Rs. 230.1 billion from ...
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Sugar and Fats Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/1/2021)
TRUE: Compared to 2019, sugar imports have increased by 38% and oil and fat imports have increased by 237%.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Parliament Hansard, 11 February 2021
Nalinda Jayatissa: tea and rubber
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/6/2019)
TRUE: the tea industry adds $1.5 billion to the economy of this country and the rubber industry adds $0.8 billion.
- Nalinda Jayatissa, Mawbima, 4 February 2019
Eran Wickramaratne: Tourism Percentage of GDP
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/10/2019)
TRUE: Sri Lanka’s tourism sector accounts for 5% of gross domestic product.
- Eran Wickramaratne, Dinamina, 22 May 2019
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Fiscal stability
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/15/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: …we are coming step by step towards fiscal stability. Even the IMF calculated that for this first quarter, our primary account balance will be negative by Rs. 56 billion. But we have brought this quarter…to a ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Women in universities
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)
TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Election costs
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/30/2022)
BLATANTLY FALSE: You cannot go for elections now. The economy is getting really bad. We have to stabilise the economy. The cost of the last election was Rs.10 billion. It will cost Rs.20 billion this time. A candidate will ...