By Lal Gunesekera
The Chairman of Milco (Pvt) Limited Sunil Wickramasinghe was candid when he said that Sri Lanka was not in a position to even get close to the country’s requirements of milk powder which was presently imported in massive quantities.
He told The Island that Sri Lanka had to develop the fresh milk production in a big way to become self sufficient in the milk industry. The country had a long way to go.
Wickramasinghe said that Milco’s powdered milk production was about 150,000 kilos a month, which he says is 30 to 35 percent of their total production, while the liquid milk production was 35 percent and yogurt and ice cream 30 percent.
He said that the country imported around 75,000 tonnes of powdered milk per annum.
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