The Hon. Ruwanthilaka Jayakody
Hon. Ruwanthilaka Jayakody raised a supplementary question on sharp agricultural price volatility, citing green chilli prices falling from about Rs. 1,400 to Rs. 80 per kilogram within months. He asked whether a mechanism exists to stabilize prices in a way that protects both consumers during price increases and farmers during price declines.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you for the detailed and satisfactory reply. My first supplementary: Price volatility has been extreme—e.g., green chilli wholesale price was about Rs. 1,400 per kg then dropped to Rs. 80 within months. Consumers suffer when prices rise; farmers suffer when they fall. Is there a mechanism to stabilize prices overall?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 ·No. 22635 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ruwanthilaka Jayakody. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 October 2025. No. 22635. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29544