Animal Production and Health Department Director General Dr. Hemali Kotalawala said that although the annual demand for liquid milk in the country is 1,200 billion litres, only 35 to 40 percent of it can be met and milk has to be imported at an annual cost of Rs.70 billion.
She also stated that the country’s economy has been severely affected when such a huge amount of money goes to foreign countries.
The Director General said this at a farmer leader training programme held at the Animal Production and Health Department’s Gannoruwa Training Institute yesterday (12).
Kothalawala said that increasing the production of liquid milk in the country and gradually reducing the amount of money going to foreign countries for milk imports is a big challenge the country is facing and added although there was growth in the country’s liquid milk industry until 2018, after that the production has gone down.
She said that in order to increase the production of liquid milk, it is necessary for farmers to adopt new technology.
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