INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The government is intervening to manage the currently volatile rice market by buying up surplus paddy stocks in the Maha cultivation
This is to encourage the private sector paddy millers to purchase paddy under a fair price thus ensuring a fixed price for paddy, Co-Cabinet
Media Spokesman Information and Communications Technology, Higher Education, Technology and Innovations Minister Dr
Bandula Gunawardena announced yesterday
Addressing the weekly Cabinet media briefing at the Government Information Department yesterday, Minister Dr
Gunawardane said the harvesting of paddy for the Maha cultivation season 2019/20 has already begun and a harvest of three million metric
tons of paddy harvest is expected.
