The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for the import of 70,000 metric tonnes of rice as a short-term solution to address the existing shortage of rice in the market. MORE..

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Cabinet approval to import 70,000 MT of rice

The Cabinet has approved the import of 70,000 metric tons of rice. Accordingly, Mr. Wasantha Samarasinghe, Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Safety and Cooperative Development said that the rice will be imported through Sathosa and State Commercial (Miscellaneous) Statutory Corporation. He mentioned that the government decided to import rice as a solution to the short-term rice shortage. Accordingly, Swarna Nadu […] The post Cabinet approval to …

සහල් මෙට්‍රික්ටොන් 70,000ක් ආනයනය කිරීමට කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය හිමිව තිබෙනවා. ඒ අනුව සතොස සහ රාජ්‍ය වාණිජ (විවිධ) නීතිගත සංස්ථාව හරහා එම සහල් ආනයනය කරන බව වෙළෙඳ, වාණිජ, ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතා සහ සමූපකාර සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය වසන්ත සමරසිංහ මහතා පැවසුවා. කෙටිකාලීන සහල් හිඟයට විසඳුමක් ලෙස මෙලෙස සහල් ආනයනයට රජය තීරණය කළ බව ඔහු සඳහන් කළා. ඒ අනුව ස්වර්ණ නාඩු […] The post සහල් මෙට්‍රික්ටොන් 70,000ක් ආනයනය කිරීමට කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය appeared first on ITN News.

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Cabinet approval to import 70,000 metric tons of rice

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ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will import 70,000 metric tonnes of rice to address a shortfall in the market, Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Wasantha Samarasinghe said. “Even though there was a surplus rice production in the country this year, when you go to the market there is no rice,” Samarasinghe told reporters. “The farmer has no paddy, and the consumer has no rice.” “The best decision we can take in this si…

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Sri Lanka to import 70,000 tonnes of rice to address shortage: Minister

රජය සහල් ආනයනයට තීරණය කරයි “මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් 70,000ක්” The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for the import of 70,000 metric tonnes of rice as a short-term solution to address the existing shortage of rice in the market. The rice will be imported through the Lanka Sathosa and Sri Lanka State Trading (General) Corporation, according to Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Wasantha Samarasinghe. Speaking at …

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Cabinet approval to import 70,000 MT of rice - LankaXpress

The Sri Lankan government has decided to import 70,000 metric tons of rice to address the shortage in the local market. Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security, and Cooperative Development Wasantha Samarasinghe stated that the required Cabinet approval has been obtained. The rice will be imported through Lanka Sathosa and the Sri Lanka State Trading (General) Corporation. A significant portion of the imported rice will be of the ‘Swarna Nadu’…

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Sri Lanka to import 70,000 metric tons of rice to address shortage

DHAKA : The Bangladesh Government has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Food to import 50,000 tons of non-basmati parboiled rice from India through an open tender process. The total expenditure for the purchase will amount to Tk282.96 crore. The decision was finalized at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchases, chaired by Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, at the Secretariat on Thursday. According to meeting sources, …

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