Fuel price hike from midnight today
Posted by Editor on May 10, 2018 - 2:17 pm
The prices of fuel will be increased with effect from midnight today, Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne said a short while ago.
Accordingly, prices of fuel per litre will be as follows,
Petrol (Octane 92) – Rs. 138
Petrol (Octane 95) – Rs. 148
Auto Diesel – Rs. 109
Super Diesel – Rs. 119
Kerosene – Rs.101
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Cooking gas increased few weeks ago and now YP increased DPL (diesel, Petrol & Lamp Oil) . This has a direct impact on food prices. When Food Prices go up people resort to cheap food. The result is a malnourished nation.
Dear Mr Amarakoon. Sorry sir I don’t agree with you here. It is good for the country when food prices and furl prices go up. It is not advisable to subsidize these when the price is going up all over the world.
What will you do if say price of rice go up to Rs1000 a Kg. You don’t starve to death. This is a problem and also a opportunity to grow rice,
To get some thing you have to give some thing, So instead of going to this stupid Sri Lanken university or Royal college and cramming old notes and passing in physics and chemistry and do nothing (or be a teacher handing old notes to students) isn’t it better to study what is fit for the purpose. ( mainly agriculture) .
you are malnourished and no fuel to cook your meal.
Finlay no body will send you a car or food just because you crame a book and passed a exam. You have to give them something back or invent something new with that knowldge.
That what British did and from proceed they construct the railways, roads and left with surplus of cash in the reserve,
When the paddy fields are laying empty and energy of suns energy is poring year around how can you blame you are mul
Well brother Ranjith. I agree with you. However, I was talking about immediate impact and the scenario it creates right now. As I mentioned in an earlier post, rice production has gone down 43%. Infrastructure for rice cultivation going down. Prices of Fertilizer gone up and before long there was a scarcity of fertilizer in the market. It can be argued that the current government prefer importing rice. After all we can’t expect farmers to toil in fields with an empty stomach. Even for a ‘Kubota/Land master’ two wheel tractor you need Fuel. Isn’t it.
Oh no Mr Amarakoon . If you give fertilizer, tractor, water any body can cultivate, Let the farmers find fertilize, water and seed and plant the crops. Here I go again, In Sri lanka the universities are stand alone craming old notes just to pass a exam and forget it and complain to goverment for lack of jobs. . In develop countries they work with the industries, and farmers and develop new methods. E.G Luton Uni has a auto engineering degree. Next door to Uni is Vaxhall car factory. So they talk to each other and the students come with new ideas to improve the performance etc.
Israel was a desert, Now they are the biggest orange producers in the world. Our kings did not have Kubotas.
I am fed up with these excuses. Always blaming the governments.
Lastly if I ask any pregnant women what you like to have the answer either a boy or girl. If I asked the same question from a Sri Lanken women they say they want a engineer or a doctor. So how can we encourage young people to get their hand dirty. When the fields are lying empty our youths are having bicycle race. What can we do?
OK Brother Ranjith, Let us forget about Rice for a moment. Our Pumpkin farmers had Land, Fertilizer, water and finally good harvest. They couldn’t sell the crop (though the pumpkin prices in Colombo was high). Who is to be blamed? Government? Middle Men? Poor infrastructure? No Halloween organized in Colombo? Now come to the Rice; Brother Ranjith, during our Great Kings we never imported rice. Now we have modern day Mudalali’s wanna import rice. Importing rice is a lucrative business. Again, importing rice fetch commissions. What about our eating habits and culture. We didn’t have Bread, buns, Koththu Roti, Fried Rice, Buriyani during the time of our kings. What about our great rice varieties? They are not favoured anymore, cheap rice varieties introduced by Philippines rice research institute which thrive on imported fertilizer grown now. All these need a complete turn around and overhaul of the system.
Dear Mr Amarakoon. You cannot take one item like Pumpkin and come to a conclusion. I agree with you about the poor infrastucture. At the end it come to education. education education. How to preserve harvest like canning product etc. You need a education system that suits the purpose. Otherwise we will make a problem out of every thing we do. During our great kings we build tanks, palaces, paint in Sigiriya that last for years (no chemical company in the world can do that so far) . Above all the country was rich.If it was poor British want come here. The problem is not only we lost the great rice variety but also our identity. Half of the Muslim children born to Sinhalese mothers. I give up.