Secretary – Ministry of Agriculture Gunadasa Samarasinghe has written to the Secretary – Ministry of Finance requesting that a tax be imposed on imported potatoes.
However, Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera said despite the fact that the letter was sent, no action has been taken by Finance Ministry officials, and that he will notify the President about this at tomorrow’s (13) Cabinet meeting.
He said the Ministry of Agriculture has begun a programme to discourage the importation of potatoes from other countries during the local potato harvest, with the goal of protecting local potato farmers as well as local potato cultivation.
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