Improving the productivity of local milk is a fake project

In order to become a self-sufficient country in milk productivity and the reducement of importing milk powder,

goverment has been spent Rs.7673.3 Million from 2010 to 2017.However  Sri Lanka Goverment has been imported 84.02 metric tons of

milk powder in year 2011 and 93.12 metric tons in year 2017.

Thus,they have spent Rs.51.63 per 1 litre of milk for increase the productivity of milk powder.

In year 2004,it was planned to launch 1250 outlets to promote liquid milk.But 2013 only 685 outlets were opened by December 31,2013.

Since 283 outlets among of them were opened without any feasibilty study by national livestock development board ,only 34 outlets(12%) had  functioning

by the end of 2017.Only 112 out of 402 outlets that were inagurated at provincial level were functioning by the end of 2016.

A project for importing 2000 dairy cows was carried out,but the auditors' general reports point out that there was no proper policy for that.

Department of National Planning stated that this project is a more risky one and they stated that the diseases from imported cattle can be infected to

local cattle and also for humans.But national livestock development board has been imported 4500 of cattle in 2015 and 3024 of cattle in 2017

without giving any concerned about the above statements.In May 2018,the Ministry of Economic Affairs published a newspaper advertisement for another importation

of 15,000 dairy cows.

Government has misused money by paying an advance of Rs .1749.67 million to the contractor for 12500 animals to be imported in year  

2019 and 2020 and also by giving the public money to a foreign supplier before providing animals