A’pura promotes rice based food

Nimal Wijesinghe - Anuradhapura Additional District group correspondent

Anuradhapura District Secretary Mahinda Seneviratne instructed Divisional Secretaries to support the efforts of the Institute of Post Harvest Technology in Anuradhapura to promote rice based food. The District Secretary said paddy harvest has been on the increase for a few consecutive seasons.

The people should be encouraged to take rice and rice flour based food in place of wheat flour based food. The research officers of the institute of the post harvest technology have invented a range of rice flour based food varieties such as noodles, bread, habala pethi instant string hoppers and rice, infant food, biscuits, murukku, cake, buns viyan rolls and butter buns.

Meanwhile, North Central Chief Minister Ranjith Samarakoon is planning to revive the rice flour based bakery food items manufacturing programme through Pradeshiya Sabhas commenced by the provincial council authorities nearly three year back.