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Posted on February 16th, 2021
by Garvin Karunaratne
Sky rocketing prices of vegetables and fruit has happened to be
the order of the day. Once we did have a method to control inflation by
ensuring that traders cannot keep a fat margin. That was the system built up by
Sri Lankan administrators RH Basset and BLW Fernando Commissioners of the
Department for Development of Agricultural Marketing. This system was
worked in a perfect manner from the Fifties till the late Seventies, when
we bowed to the IMF and abandoned it.
I enclose a Paper written by me a few years ago which details the
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