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To face future food crisis:

Public - private partnership vital

Public and private sector partnership could play an important role to increase the productivity in the agriculture sector in order to face a future food crisis, Managing Director CIC Holdings Plc Samantha Ranatunga said.


Additional Secretary Ministry  of Agriculture, Dr. D.B.T Wijeratne launching the web site while Managing Director,
Samantha Ranatunga look on. (Picture by Sumanachadra Ariyawansa)

"Food and nutrition safety is important because our per capita income has crossed the US $ 2,000 mark, yet 20 percent of households are food insecure, which needs to be addressed," Ranatunga said at a news conference which was organized by CIC Agri Business and the Ministry of Agriculture. The day long conference is being sponsored by CIC Holdings Plc, which would be held on October 17, at Waters Edge.

The conference hopes to raise issues surrounding the present global food and nutrition security crisis, its implications for Sri Lanka and

potential local and global challenges. The organizers also hope the event would identify short and medium term challenges and opportunities for strategic actions.

He said that given the urgency, it's important that an emerging economy like Sri Lanka, puts more efforts to focus more on sustainable production models, enforce productivity improvement measures and assure national food and nutrition securities to face any eventuality.

"If the government jointly works with the private sector, we could be self sufficient in food and also new manifestations being created to promote and attract food and nutritional safety to face future challenges," Ranatunga said.

Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr D.B.T Wijeratne said that Sri Lanka has reached an important milestone in agriculture during the last year by being self sufficient in our stable food and main feed commodities, rice and maze, respectively.

He said that although caloric malnutrition was not prevalent in Sri Lanka, he said that still Sri Lanka could face the daunting issues related to nutritional security, especially protein and micro nutrient deficiency.

To improve the nutritional levels of the people of Sri Lanka, we should make most of agriculture produce, including cereals, pulse crops, nuts, fruits and vegetables available year around at a reasonable price.

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