The first consignment of eggs imported from India will attain Sri Lanka tomorrow (March 19), the State In search of and promoting (Frequent) Company says.
The cargo will carry two million eggs in full, based mostly on a spokesperson of the corporate.
The Sri Lankan authorities decided to import eggs in a bid to cope with the hovering prices of eggs and to deal with the egg shortage contained within the native market.
However, imported eggs shouldn’t be going to be going to be outfitted at retailers for frequent consumption.
It was decided that these eggs be outfitted at Rs. 40 or tons so much a lot much less for meals producers, as a security measure to avert hen flu from coming into and spreading contained within the nation.
Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera merely at current gave directives to the associated officers to expeditiously put collectively a set of suggestions on how imported eggs needs to be used contained within the bakery commerce.
It’s fast that gloves are used when coping with imported eggs contained within the bakery commerce and eggshells are safely discarded, guaranteeing that the remaining eggshells mustn’t launched to the setting beneath any circumstances.
All through the meantime, ahead of the arrival of the first batch of imported eggs, the exact commodity levy imposed on imported eggs has moreover been revised. Accordingly, the levy per egg was lowered from Rs. 50 to Rs. 1 for a interval of three months, setting nice from February 21.
The first cargo of imported eggs was scheduled to attain in Sri Lanka in late February, however, it was delayed as a consequence of things pertaining to certification.
