WFP to build warehouses to store Sri Lanka's paddy harvest

The World Food Programme (WFP) has offered financial assistance to construct six warehouses to store this season's bumper paddy harvest in Sri Lanka.

The paddy storage facilities will be constructed in Moneragala, Ampara, and Polonnaruwa and Batticaloa districts and each warehouse can store about 1,500 metric tons of paddy.
Chairman of the Paddy Marketing Board K.B. Jayasinghe has told the state-run Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation that there will be a special discussion in the Polonnaruwa District Secretariat tomorrow with regard to purchase of paddy in the district.
Jayasinghe said that the paddy stores in Polonnaruwa district is still stocked with the harvest of the last season and steps have been taken to shift them to food stores in Veyangoda and Divulapitiya in the Western Province to make room for this season's crop.
With this season's bumper harvest the PMB was having difficulties to find storage facilities for the paddy. The PMB expects 600,000 tons of paddy harvest in the Yala season.