Milk powder prices increased
Posted by Editor on March 16, 2019 - 8:54 am
The prices of powdered milk have been increased according to the new milk food price formula, Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen said.
The Cabinet of the Ministers on Tuesday approved a new pricing formula on imported milk powder.
Accordingly the price of a 1kg packet of milk powder has been increased by Rs 60 while the price of a 400g packet has been increased by Rs 25.
Following the revision the new price of a 400g packet is 370 rupees.
Accordingly, 1kg milk powder packets will be sold at 920 rupees in the market.
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SL should stop consuming Milk Powder. Look for fresh Milk.
For fresh milk, we need lots of grazing land and qualified graziers who have a deep understanding of the industry.
We need highly efficient collection systems with cooled transport, we need multiple processing centres and and efficient distribution system.
We have all the resources we need but for 70 years since independence, all Governments had no policy on this industry.
It will take not less than 10 years of consistent policy implementation and appropriate funding to achieve this.
A few years back, a stupid Agri Minister thought importing high grade cows would solve the problem. He went around and bought almost 20,000 of them (and of course, earned a bit on the side) and they were dumped to landowners with small parcels of land recommended by Pradeshiya Sabha Reps.
Almost 19,000 of the imported cows died with 2-3 years.
WE gardually destroying Muthurajawela. It would have been a ideal grazing ground. Closer to Colombo. Besies, Welisara Milk Powder Packing factory is there. Had this been developed Milk problem would have been easily resolved.
Amarakoon,
Of course, ALL Sinhla Buddhist Majority governments since 1948 did nothing but destroy the natural assets of our lovely, beautiful motherland.
But the majority Sinhala Buddhist voters continuosly kept on electing the Blues and the Greens for the past 70 years.
It is not that the leaders are stupid but the ordinary voters, such as yourself, who repeatedly voted the Blue and Green bufoons into Parliament are the dumb-wits.