The Green Agriculture Action Center stated yesterday that there is no need to import rice as the rice and paddy stocks in the country are sufficient until the harvest of the next Maha Season.
The Center also pointed out that there is no need to be afraid of a food shortage as there are enough stocks of additional food crops such as cowpea, green gram, undu seeds, groundnuts and kurakkan in the country.
This was revealed when a discussion on the collection of information and data in the agriculture sector was held under the patronage of Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera. Minister Amaraweera, inquired at length from officials of the Green Agriculture Action Center regarding the possible impact of the current weather conditions on the country’s food security.
They emphasized that there will be enough rice and paddy stocks until the harvest of the next Maha season, so there will be no need to import rice. Chicken and eggs will also be enough for consumption until the end of this year, and the price of vegetables will continue to rise due to the ongoing drought.
Minister Amaraweera said that the existing economic centers should be put under formal management in order to control the increase in the price of vegetables as well as certain food items. He said that the economic centers which started to protect the consumer and the farmer are now deviating from that original intention.
The Minister made a request to the Green Agriculture Action Center to prepare a programme to save the farmer and the consumer from the families, thugs and robbers who have taken over the economic centers.
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