People will have no food by mid-May and signs of a severe food scarcity are foreshadowed

The problem however is the lack of essential food items despite price hikes

The concession package given during new year through Sathosa didn’t contain food items people needed

Large scale traders do not bring dollars to the countryFunds granted by the IMF cannot be used for food items and is given only as a bank guarantee

If not for the protests by people they would have carried out this racket With the revoking of price regulation gazettes the CAA can no longer intervene and protect consumers

Black market traders favouring the Government have created this situation

At present Sri Lanka is expecting a severe food shortage. The authorities are yet to find solutions to the upcoming food shortage and cite the dollar crisis as the reason behind not being able to find a solution to the issue. Very soon there will be no food items in the market for people to buy. Even now there are some essential food items which are not found in the market because of the lack of dollars which   is needed to release the imported food stocks stored in vessels stuck at the port. People are force to live amidst these problems. Our sister newspaper Sunday Lankadeepa reported on this crisis in its January 16th issue.