Urgent letter to President from Wimal
- Monday, 12 May 2014
The National Freedom Front (NFF) leader of the party Minister Wimal Weerawansa sent a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa and informed that the consumers and dairy farmers should be benefited from the decrease of milk powder price in the world market.
The Minister Wimal Weerawansa has also informed the President that in order to limit the importation of milk powder and increase the local production, ' a method of importation licensing ‘ must be introduced indicating a definite amount of milk powder which can be imported from multinational milk powder companies.
In his letter to the President Minister Weerawansa has further stated that with the increase of milk powder prices in February and the decrease of import taxes the multinational milk powder companies were able to swindle Rs 15000 from the public and Rs 5000 million worth taxes from the government. If the government only allowed the increase of the price preventing the tax relief, the above Rs 5000 million could have used for providing relief for dairy farmers, the minister has indicated.
The multinational companies which make a fake uproar if the milk powder price in the world market was increased even slightly and request the government to increase the local price of milk powder , are not ready to provide the public with the benefits of decreased milk powder price in the world market , when the price has fallen largely.
