Sri Lanka is an island.Plenty of greenery and sunshine are freely available.
In 2006 Sri Lanka produced 7000 Metric Tons of Powdered Milk.Main four sri lankan companies have help for these production.But the pathetic situation is sri lanka imports 68000 Metric Tons of Powdered Milk.That is too much.Why can not sri lanka made it's own requirement ? Do we need to import such massive qty from other countries ?
But this situation is much recovered in 2008 ,In 2008 Sri lanka produced 7500 Metric Tons of Powdered Milk.But Still Sri Lanka had to import 62000 Metric Tons from the other countries.
Major Powdered Milk production compaines are Nestle,Milco,Kothmale and Maliban.
But all these companies are famous for manufacturing following product(Milk food).
* UHT Tetra Milk
* Cheese
* Yoghurt
* Ice Cream
* Fresh Cream
* Ghee
* Curd
* Milk Powder
* Butter
* Sterilized Milk
Sri lanka is in front of Milk food production.In 2008 Sri lanka produced 2800 Metric Tons of Milk food.But still In 2008 Sri lanka had to import 50 Metric Tons from other countries.
