Sri Lanka, April 8 -- Paddy and Grains, Organic Food, Vegetables, Fruits, Chillies, Onion and Potato Cultivation Promotion, Seed Production and Advanced Technology Agriculture State Minister Shasheendra Rajapaksa is a humble and amiable politician with a strong social conscience who has been striving to revitalise the agriculture sector.

His foray into politics was not a mistake but the choice of people of the Uva Wellassa region where thousands laid down their lives during the Uva-Wellassa rebellion against the British colonials in 1818.

Rajapaksa who prefers fair justice and equity for his people, in an exclusive interview with the Daily News, says that the Government is making every possible effort to end the rice mafia in the countr...