The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe
Wasantha Samarasinghe said the shortage of red rice was partly due to distribution to people who did not need it. He pointed to the poultry industry’s use of about 300,000 metric tons of paddy annually and called for government departments to reduce reliance on domestic harvests for poultry feed.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Exactly the point I was coming to. One reason red rice is short is that it was given to those who didn’t need it. We then looked at where rice goes. Our poultry industry has 12.5 million laying hens and 8 million chicks, using about 300,000 MT of paddy per year. Our departments must reduce this from domestic harvests.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 9 January 2025 ·No. 1738229262040729 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 January 2025. No. 1738229262040729. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23784