People are seen at the Pettah Market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Dec. 11, 2024. The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved a proposal by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to establish a food policy and security committee under the presidential secretariat, the president's media division (PMD) said on Tuesday. The move aims to provide every citizen with minimum food requirements in sufficient quantity and quality at an affordable price, it added. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)
COLOMBO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved a proposal by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to establish a food policy and security committee under the presidential secretariat, the president's media division (PMD) said on Tuesday.
The move aims to provide every citizen with minimum food requirements in sufficient quantity and quality at an affordable price, it added.
The committee will focus on objectives such as promoting domestic production of all food items that can be produced locally, maintaining a reserve stock of essential food sufficient for at least three months, and establishing and maintaining a comprehensive data system on existing food stocks, the PMD said.
The committee will be under the co-chairmanship of the minister of agriculture, livestock, lands and irrigation, and the minister of trade, commerce, food security, and cooperative development, it added. ■
