(1.30 pm) Shrimp is a food that everyone loves to eat, but for a while now, it has become a big deal to even think about eating shrimp.
A kilo of medium-sized shrimp, which used to cost Rs. 1200, now costs over Rs. 1700.
We are not talking about lagoon or sea shrimp, but palm shrimp.
When asked about the reason for this, the main shrimp traders in Negombo said that the mafia operating in the country related to the food given to shrimp is the one.
If the government intervenes and saves the food given to shrimp from this mafia, the prices will come down to the point where even an ordinary family can eat shrimp, these traders say.
When you look, there is no place without mafias. Rice sellers, salt sellers, you can list a long list like that.
