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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the officials to implement a programme to control the rising prices of vegetables to provide relief to consumers while safeguarding farmers, the President's Media Division said. 

The rising prices of vegetables have led to an increase in the cost of living. During a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat, today (24) with the officials of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and the Ministry of Trade the President said that there should be an immediate intervention to control it.  

Vegetables are brought to Dambulla from the areas of vegetable cultivation. After this process, again vegetables are distributed back to the original areas from Dambulla. Due to waste in transport a large amount of crop go waste. President Rajapaksa pointed out that this procedure is not correct at all. During this meeting, the attention was also drawn to explore the possibilities of vegetable cultivation in state lands belonging to plantation companies not only limiting to coconut cultivation.

The President also pointed out that although economic centres were set up to provide relief to consumers and small traders, issues have arisen as these centres are controlled by large scale traders with vested interests.  

The government paddy purchasing process was also taken into consideration. These tasks are being carried out successfully with the assistance of the Army. Paddy storage warehouses have been renovated in several areas. The President instructed the officials to repair all other paddy storage warehouses immediately.

During this meeting, it was also discussed in detail regarding the issues related to the residents of the Moragahakanda - Kaluganga project. Issues that have arisen due to non-payment to the contract companies also discussed during this meeting.  

Attention was also drawn to the protection of projects such as Uma Oya and to create reservations in those areas.

Minister of Mahaweli, Agriculture, Irrigation and Rural Development, Chamal Rajapaksa, State Minister Roshan Ranasinghe, Ministry Secretaries and Senior Officials participated in this meeting. 


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  • Andrew Silva Tuesday, 25 February 2020 05:28 AM

    Our President loves to babble and medal with vegetables. His favourite is Bandakka. May be because it's pretty slippery.

    Hamlet Tuesday, 25 February 2020 05:53 AM

    Those poor Vegetable growers, work hard to get their Produce to the market, for free meals to Politicians at Parliament House! Why not control the Rising prices of having non-working Politicians?

    Nadi Karunaratne Tuesday, 25 February 2020 06:06 AM

    Is there a grown up in the house who understands basic economics? A crisis always takes longer to arrive than you think but when it strikes it arrives faster than you could imagine. We can't rely on the kindness of strangers any longer they have their own problems.

    Sokrates Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:50 AM

    The farmers should set up cooperatives and get rid of the middlemen.

    Tissa De Silva Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:36 PM

    Get Agricultural officers to visit farmers and provide advice. Udahamulla Agi office sleeps all day. They have not visited my cultivation for 3 years. They are divided in to 3 offices with overlapping functions and hence no work.


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