The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake
Chamara Sampath Dasanayake asked the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development for details on rice imports approved at the current Government’s first Cabinet meeting. He sought the imported quantity, consumer sale price, data on public and private paddy and rice stocks, and an explanation of the benefit of importing rice despite providing fertilizer subsidies to paddy farmers.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, first, congratulations on your appointment. I could not congratulate you yesterday. The former Speaker had a fine name, “Rathnasara Ranwala.” He set aside a good name given by his parents for the Speaker’s chair. I wish you to remain long in the office of Speaker.
¶ 02 IMPORTED RICE: DETAILS
¶ 03 97/2024
¶ 04 6. The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake asked the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development:
¶ 05 (a) Will he inform this House— (i) the quantity of rice that has been imported to Sri Lanka in metric tons, as decided at the first Cabinet meeting of the current Government; (ii) the price at which the imported rice is sold to consumers; (iii) whether the Government has data on paddy and rice stocks available in Government and private sector warehouses; and (iv) what benefits are accrued by importing rice while a fertilizer subsidy has been provided to paddy farmers?
¶ 06 (b) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 18 December 2024. No. 1735286612086554. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12093