Minister Bandula Gunawadena says the government is ready to import chicken to meet consumer demand with local stocks running out, reported Daily mirror today.
Is this another facet of the food crisis or a move by government to bring some importers to the picture in a sector that shows no short of local producers? Is it a move to extend the benefits we are promised under Mahinda Chinthana to foreigners too? Or are we seriously facing a crisis where the local production is not adequate to meet the consumption? The latter is difficult to imagine because with the exceptional increases in prices chicken consumption has come down and the producers have started packing ‘half chicken’.
