Government decides not to import rice

@ThilinaM wrote:its not practicle and very risky . we have to depend on other contrys

just tell me plan how to live Sri Lanka without depend on other country? we are importing everything
Oil,medicine...

Oil medicine are not priority food is priority. we can reduce transport cost and have other alternatives.
we can live 70 year without medicine.

CAN WE LIVE 3 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD???

when we have our own food we can bring SL cost of consumption to zero.
then all export revenue is profit. difference should be invested globally.

eat your own food and save other expences . do maximum export . srilanka can grow 20% rate.

Chicken/fish and rice should be never imported to SL exept 500% tax all should produce in SL.

may be we both have two different view..

what i seen your view is, 
who live in "6 perch land in colombo" and challenging 160 perch land own person in Polonnaruwa we not need your rice i can build it..

Any way Thank you very much Thilina for your comments.

@colombo CSE - any way im little biased thease days im highly invested in paddy fields. ha ha
you are wrong . we have to fid ways to reduce expences. ways to become indipendent.

Job we are slaving. you are proposing SL to become slave of other countrys.
we have to specialise not what we can do best . we have to specialise on what is important.

Stopping imports is better, but contributing to those plantations are good too. We have to balance both of them. Otherwise system will be jammed when special situation occurs.

However i also have some kinda sick which is not to depend on others.

In my scenario, Its Me Vs Government.

You know it's so hard to become self sufficient as a person against government services.But i planned not to purchase electricity from gov. I ll produce using solar panels or using some other technology.

I won't purchase water from gov. That's not hard btw.

And if we stop importing other food too (such as corn,vegetables,fruits) It will be so good.
We need to focus in increasing exports as well as reducing imports. We must limit imports only to essential things. And that will encourage local businesses too. GDP will be increased. Gov expenditures will be reduced. Good for country

KavinduTM wrote:Stopping imports is better, but contributing to those plantations are good too. We have to balance both of them. Otherwise system will be jammed when special situation occurs.

However i also have some kinda sick which is not to depend on others.

In my scenario, Its Me Vs Government.

You know it's so hard to become self sufficient as a person against government services.But i planned not to purchase electricity from gov. I ll produce using solar panels or using some other technology.

I won't purchase water from gov. That's not hard btw.

And if we stop importing other food too (such as corn,vegetables,fruits) It will be so good.
We need to focus in increasing exports as well as reducing imports. We must limit imports only to essential things. And that will encourage local businesses too. GDP will be increased. Gov expenditures will be reduced. Good for country

However we can't be self sufficient totally, But it will be good for us (as a human or as a country) limiting the ways we depend on others. Which means we can use our own way. own path to victory.

However during times of 1st king parakramabahu, we were self sufficient. That was the times that world used to call srilanka as the "Oriental granary" "පෙරදිග ධාන්‍යාගාරය". We were self sufficient from foods. Even we exported rice to many other countries. And that times, Srilanka was a "Developed Country" .

But after the invasions of so many intruders such as kalinga maagha and other "chola" intruders, Srilanka was totally destroyed. It happened during ages of weak kings.

After those attacks, Srilanka is still struggling to develop. over 1000 years. its still being a developing country.



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Food is a basic need. At the time of hungry ,we can not eat monetary notes or coins. Especially related to rice, we should not consider profit and Loss.

@ThilinaM wrote:we get income from garments say   100
and pay for eating to other contrys   150
its -50

my methord
income 100
eating cost (we produce ) 0
profit 100

Teller wrote:Food is a basic need. At the time of hungry ,we can not eat monetary notes or coins. 

මමත් කැමති ඕගොල්ලෝ හිතන විදියට හිතල හිත සනස ගන්න නමුත් යථාර්තය ඊට වඩා වෙනස්.... 
මම මේක තව එක පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් කරන්නම්  ,

අපි ගමු තිළිණ ගේ උදාහරණය...

income 100
eating cost (we produce ) 0
profit 100

දැන් තිලින කියන විදියට  income 100 සහ profit 100 මට දන්නා විදියට 

1) අපි පොහොර සහ කෘමුනාශක  ගේන්නේ පිටරටින් එක පිටරරට ගෙවන්න  වෙනවා  
2)  අපි ටැක්ටර් ගේන්නේ පිටරටින් එක පිටරරට ගෙවන්න  වෙනවා  
3) අපි තෙල් ගේන්නේ පිටරටින් එක පිටරරට ගෙවන්න  වෙනවා 
4) උදැල්ල පවා ගේන්නේ ඉන්දියාවෙන් 
5) වී මොලේ උපකරණ ගේන්නේ පිටරටින් එක පිටරරට ගෙවන්න  වෙනවා

තිලින සහ Teller මට කියන්න අපි ව්‍ වවන්න පිටරටට කොපමණ මුදලක් දෙන්නන වෙනවද 

ඇත්ටටම ආණ්ඩුව පාඩු පිට තමා මෙහෙ ව්‍ වවන්නේ... පොහොර සහ ඩිසල් සහනාදරය ගැන අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න ඔනේ නැ 

නමුත් ඉන්දියාවේ මේක වෙනස් ඒගොල්ලෝ ව්‍ වවන්න ඕන ඔක්කොම ඉන්දියාවේ හදනවා එහෙම බැලුවොත් ඉන්දියාවේ විදියට තිලින කියන එක හරි... 

"we can not eat monetary notes or coins"

දැන් Teller පොඩ්ඩක් හිතන්න 1,2,3,4,5 මම කියපු දේවල් ලංකාවේ හදලා ව්‍ වවන්න පුළුවන් ද ලංකාවේ එහම වෙනස වේවිද ?1,2,3,4,5 පිටරරින් ලංකාවට දෙන එක නැවතුන දාට මෙහෙ කොහොමත් වී ව්ව්වන්න බැ... එතකොට කන්න "notes or coins" වත් නැ..

You didnt get my point, what happened to Nepal now. If india stop Electricity , Nepal can not run,If India stop fuel Nepal can not run, If India stop medicine ,Nepal can not run, some times food also. If any country hasnt independent with energy,food ,technology,medicine of course they are not independence. Same way imagine virus scenario, if we are perfect with our production , we are safe.

Teller wrote:You didnt get my point,  what happened to Nepal now. If india stop Electricity  , Nepal can not run,If India stop fuel Nepal can not run, If India stop medicine ,Nepal can not run, some times food also.  If any country hasnt independent with energy,food ,technology,medicine of course they are not independence. Same way imagine virus scenario, if we are perfect with our production , we are safe.

Totally agree. I wanna apply that scenario to my house 

How??????

KavinduTM wrote:

Teller wrote:You didnt get my point,  what happened to Nepal now. If india stop Electricity  , Nepal can not run,If India stop fuel Nepal can not run, If India stop medicine ,Nepal can not run, some times food also.  If any country hasnt independent with energy,food ,technology,medicine of course they are not independence. Same way imagine virus scenario, if we are perfect with our production , we are safe.

Totally agree. I wanna apply that scenario to my house 

That will be so good. So we can take decisions and go hard in any situation.According to your info, actually Nepal has no independence. 

The less we depend on others, we will be able to develop far better
Actually, Dependence to Development has a inverse relationship. 

At least it will be okay if some 2 countries are depend on each with a 50:50. Which means we export their essential as well as we import our essentials from them. Both countries need each other.

However imports and exports owe the main part of a country. It will decide the country's track. To the hell or heaven.

Teller wrote:How??????

I will produce electricity using solar panels or some technology. (so no need to purchase from gov)

A good well or 2 will take care of water. (no need to purchase water too)

I will grow vegetables and fruits in my own garden and it will solve the food problem.(at least i won't depend on market totally)

I have some plans for rice too.

Problems will be minimum  
Because i m in charge.

Don't say it isn't practical

KavinduTM wrote:

Teller wrote:How??????

I will produce electricity using solar panels or some technology. (so no need to purchase from gov)

A good well or 2 will take care of water. (no need to purchase water too)

I will grow vegetables and fruits in my own garden and it will solve the food problem.(at least i won't depend on market totally)

I have some plans for rice too.

Problems will be minimum  
Because i m in charge.

Don't say it isn't practical

මෙහෙම තමයි අපෙ මිනිස්සු ඉස්සර ජිවත් උනෙ දේශපලුවො තමා අපෙ රට කෙල්ලෙව්වෙ

Teller wrote:You didnt get my point,  what happened to Nepal now. If india stop Electricity  , Nepal can not run,If India stop fuel Nepal can not run, If India stop medicine ,Nepal can not run, some times food also.  If any country hasnt independent with energy,food ,technology,medicine of course they are not independence. Same way imagine virus scenario, if we are perfect with our production , we are safe.

i was telling same thing with 1,2,3,4,5 points...hope u read all comments which i was added 
1) how much land we have for paddy..
2) What happens we can not import oil. can we make rice ?
3) to produce 1kg rice how much money we have to give outside of country


my point is "stop import rice" won't help. then rice price will increased cost will not reduced  
if peoples can not afford 1kg of rice price they will move to alternatives(Flour) again we paid most money to outside of country. 

KavinduTM wrote:I will produce electricity using solar panels or some technology. (so no need to purchase from gov)

it's really good you build your own solar system and independent with CEB. we import panels from China and Inverter Germany.
And we generate electricity given to CEB. if CEB stop electricity sorry for us.

KavinduTM wrote:I will grow vegetables and fruits in my own garden and it will solve the food problem.(at least i won't depend on market totally)

some of seeds we import from India.

good night guys will stop now you guys have win... 

ColomboCSE wrote:

KavinduTM wrote:I will produce electricity using solar panels or some technology. (so no need to purchase from gov)

it's really good you build your own solar system and independent with CEB. we import panels from China and Inverter Germany.
And we generate electricity given to CEB. if CEB stop electricity sorry for us.

KavinduTM wrote:I will grow vegetables and fruits in my own garden and it will solve the food problem.(at least i won't depend on market totally)

some of seeds we import from India.

good night guys will stop now you guys have win... 

Yeah you are right.

But my point is if we are currently importing 4 items from other countries,
And It will be better to make it to  3 items , then 2. We are not talking about fully independence. At least it will be better to lower the percentage we depend on other countries.
And we must import things which we can't produce(at least which we haven't started yet) in our country such as oil,medicine etc.

We have to take step by step. and the 1st is stopping unnecessary imports. specially foods.

Hope you got it. NO winning or losing hahah. just sharing ideas of each other. no offence