PMB Releases Paddy to Maintain Rice Price

Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) Chairman M.B. Dissanayake said,  as per Cabinet approval  the stocks of paddy held by the PMB will be released from today.

It will be released following a methodology  avoiding  intermediaries interfering  in the process. Al ready  paddy stocks in the Districts of Polonnaruwa, Hambantota and Ampara had been released.  Dissanayake added that the release of paddy stocks to private rice mill owners has already begun.