Separate Prices for Local & Imported Rice

Followed by a meeting  held  with  rice millers  at  Presidential  Secretariat yesterday ,  President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed officials to impose control prices separately for locally produced rice and imported  rice varieties.

President Sirisena has insisted that rice supply should not fall short in the market.

He has stressed that there should not be  rice  shortage in the market and a mechanism should be introduced  immediately   to  ensure supply of  rice to consumers at a concessionary price.

He has also stated that the tax reduction on rice imports should be passed on to the consumer and insisted a buffer stock of one hundred thousand metric tons of rice should be maintained in government storehouses.