Chinese rice donation arrives in Colombo

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A new consignment of 1000 metric tonnes of rice donated by China arrived at the Colombo Port this morning, the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka said.

The donation which has arrived in 100,000 packs will be donated to schools islandwide and the distribution will begin soon.

The Chinese Embassy said that with this latest donation, a total of 7000 metric tonnes of rice has been donated to Sri Lanka since June.

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Nihal S Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:59 PM

This is a result of incompetent Gotabaya and his Agri Minister Mahindananda for destroying our rice cultivation. These two are still living comfortable life paid by public including the rice farmers. What a country?

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chandran-kandy Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:05 PM

ok amount and quantity only arrived no items to be seen any where in sri lanka what a news bogus.every day comimg coming arrived no any result people telling where is items?

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Kumara Ilangasinghe Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:13 PM

Why Chinese Rice? The NCP Farmers have paddy stocks from the recent Yala harvest and are unable to sell the stocks at a fair price due to Govt buying price being less than the cost of production. Farmers will not cultivate the Maha season with Paddy due to the dire situation the Govt has dragged them into. Minister Amaraweera shame on you.

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Herath Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:50 PM

The only country that provides it’s unwanted substandard food as donation to Sri Lanka is India.

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Gb Saturday, 19 November 2022 06:21 PM

Is there bacteria in the rice? China would only donate what it doesn't want, easy way to take over sl, poison us all

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Ben Saturday, 19 November 2022 09:07 PM

Public won’t see any goodwill in these donations,our people not expecting to receive such but chinese companies and banks connivance with rajapksha family looted wealth of SriLankans,if you help SriLankans to recover their robbed wealth , that is sufficient instead of handouts

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ala Saturday, 19 November 2022 09:33 PM

Vajira can go with his wedding suit to receive the goods!!

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Lanka Sunday, 20 November 2022 12:48 AM

How very sad! We should produce enough rice for us plus export. An agricultural country like us should be ashamed getting handouts from others.

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KP Sunday, 20 November 2022 03:36 AM

Peanuts. Just to put things in perspective, the annual requirement of rice in SL is about 24 hundred thousand metric tons. This is just 0.2% of it. If China genuinely wanted to help, they’d agree to restructuring of debt.

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Kumara Sunday, 20 November 2022 10:08 PM

This donation meets just the fraction of quantity required to feed the starving Sri Lankans. Need to up the begging game. Lets see if the Indians continue to be benevolent.

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