Cyclone Ditwah inflicted severe agricultural damage across Ampara District, destroying or severely damaging approximately 20 percent of the main 2026 Maha season paddy crop , a blow to a district where paddy cultivation underpins the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farming families across its predominantly rural divisions. The cyclone's heavy rainfall and storm surge caused widespread field inundation, seedling damage, and critical infrastructure failures including the breaching of irrigation bunds and sluice gate damage that disrupted water management across multiple cultivation schemes. The Alla Mavil Aru Govi Vyaparaya irrigation corridor, one of the district's most productive agricultural water systems, sustained significant structural damage and is now undergoing emergency reconstruction funded under the 2026 District Budget. The government's immediate agricultural recovery response has included the accelerated distribution of certified paddy seed stock to affected farmers to enable partial replanting, the clearing of silted irrigation channels, and the mobilisation of district level agricultural extension officers to assess damage and guide affected farming families through the recovery process. Longer term agricultural resilience support is being channelled through the Smallholder Agribusiness Partnerships Programme (SAPP), which provides financial assistance for off farm infrastructure investments including storage facilities, drying equipment, and access roads to farming areas that reduce the vulnerability of smallholder paddy operations to future weather events. Farmer advocacy groups in Ampara have simultaneously pushed for a revision of the government's paddy guaranteed price upward from current levels, arguing that input cost increases since the previous price setting have eroded the economic viability of paddy cultivation even in normal weather years, let alone following cyclone induced crop failures.