Sri Lanka, June 15 -- Moves to dominate the market and create mafias by food manufacturers that would create shortages and destabilise the market will not be tolerated, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development, Chathuranga Abeysinghe.

"It was the monopolistic attitude and approach of a certain manufacturer of salt that triggered an issue in the salt market," he said.

Assuring that there won't be room for unethical practices in any market, the Deputy Minister said that manipulative tactics by manufacturers or merchants to jack up prices by creating artificial shortages will be dealt with severely in the future.

The price of edible salt rose sharply in the recent months owing to the scarcity of stocks in the mark...