The sugar sales outlets now being opened by the Industries Ministry has been criticised in social media as yet another burden on the treasury.
Posts say it would be extremely difficult to earn profits from these ventures intended to sell the produce of state-owned sugar companies.
Furthermore, their sales prices are said to be higher than the average market prices.
Minister Sunil Handunnetti launched the brown sugar sales outlet network of Lanka Sugar Company, owner of Pelwatte and Sevanagala sugar companies, by opening a wholesale and retail outlet at Nawala Road in Nugegoda on 11 November.
Speaking on the occasion, Handunnetti thanked the company staff and sugarcane cultivators for helping to nullify speculation that the company was to be privatised.
From 01 January 2026, the company will be exempt from statutory payments, he added.
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