Sri Lanka Rice Sri Lanka is planning to import 50,000 tonnes of rice from India
Colombo: Sri Lanka, a nation facing a severe economic crisis, is planning to import 50,000 tonnes of rice from India.
The Daily Mirror quoted the Prime Minister's office as saying that the decision was made during a discussion held here to allocate necessary funds for this purpose to the State Trading Corp under the Indian Loan Assistance Programme.
This is expected to avert a possible rice shortage in the future and to curb the abnormal rise in rice prices.
Sri Lanka is battling a serious economic meltdown that has triggered widespread shortages of all essential goods including food, fuel and medicines.
(With UNI inputs)
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