Go herbal and save Forex!

The Milk Powder Importers’association has announced that the prices of imported milk powder would be increased and the decision to increase it has been taken because of the increase in the price in the world market and the freight costs going up. How about shifting our consumption pattern from drinking milk to Kola Kenda (herbal porridge)?

I think it will be more nutritious and healthier to go herbal. How about savings in Forex with our Central Bank foreign reserves at present reaching an abysmal low? Let us at least reduce consumption of milk and start consuming alternatives, indigenous to our country, which are equally nutritious or even better.

I am sure the person who will like the above proposal most will be none other than CB Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal.

-MOHAMED ZAHRAN

COLOMBO