China to expand Lankan agri products purchase

China’s Vice Minister of General Administration of Customs, Wang Lingjung said that the Chinese Government is ready to further expand the existing opportunities for importing agricultural crops produced in Sri Lanka to the Chinese market.

The Chinese Deputy Minister met Agriculture and Plantation Industries Minister Mahinda Amaraweera and other Ministry officials and engaged in bilateral discussions yesterday (3).

Agricultural crops grown in Sri Lanka, such as tea, coconut, pineapple and spices, as well as fishery products, were discussed in connection with the expansion of export opportunities to the Chinese market.

Minister Amaraweera emphasised that the total value of Sri Lanka’s agricultural exports to China in 2023 is US$ 3.3 billion. He also mentioned that the value of tea purchased from our country by the Chinese Government has increased by 2.5 percent.

The Minister mentioned that tea, clothes, natural rubber products, gems, minerals and active carbon, coconut related products and confectionaries as well as fishery products produced in our country have been exported to China. The Minister made a request to give more opportunities to the agricultural products of Sri Lanka in the big market owned by China.

China’s Vice Minister Wang Lingjung said that the scope for Sri Lankan products in the Chinese market is currently 36 percent, and that it will be further expanded.

He also stated that the Chinese Government will expand to buy any quantity of high quality vegetables and fruits produced in Sri Lanka in the coming period after these bilateral discussions.

Agriculture and Plantation Industries Ministry Secretary Janaka Dharmakeerthi and other officials representing the Chinese Government and a group of officials from each sector participated.

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