{"id":124910,"date":"2022-05-02T14:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124910"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T21:08:40","slug":"maximum-retail-prices-announced-on-local-rice-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/02\/maximum-retail-prices-announced-on-local-rice-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum retail prices announced on local rice varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has announced maximum retail prices for three local varieties of rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the new maximum retail prices are not applied to rice stocks released to the market at concessionary prices by the Paddy Marketing Board, a special&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.documents.gov.lk\/files\/egz\/2022\/5\/2278-02_E.pdf\">gazette notification<\/a>&nbsp;published by CAA Chairman Shantha Dissanayake noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the communiqu\u00e9, the directive comes into effect from today (May 02).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New maximum retail prices imposed on three local rice varieties are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>White\/Red Nadu (steamed\/boiled) \u2013 Rs. 220 per kilogram<br>White\/Read Samba (steamed\/boiled) \u2013 Rs. 230 per kilogram<br>Keeri Samba \u2013 Rs. 260 per kilogram<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has announced maximum retail prices for three local varieties of rice. However, the new maximum retail prices are not applied to rice stocks released to the market at concessionary prices by the Paddy Marketing Board, a special&nbsp;gazette notification&nbsp;published by CAA Chairman Shantha Dissanayake noted. According to the communiqu\u00e9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}