Sri Lanka, June 3 -- The government has initiated discussions with China, Iran and several African countries to export locally manufactured brown sugar as a variety of organic sugar, Minister of Industries Sunil Handunnetti said today.

He told Parliament that there is a high demand for organic sugar in the world market and that brown sugar manufactured in Sri Lanka is high in organic percentage.

Responding to a question by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, he said the move to export brown sugar is one option to raise the revenue of the sugar factories.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Daily Mirror Sri Lanka....