Local Sri Lankan farmers are having trouble selling their own milk, so they took to the streets in protest. 12,000 liters of farm-fresh milk flooded the streets of of Hatton, in response to private milk companies suspending their purchases.

Alarmed at the wastage, the government has ordered the state-owned milk company, Milco, to buy all the farmers' unsold milk to bolster moves towards national self-sufficiency.

"We are committed to encourage dairy farmers in this country to produce milk," Milco's chairman Sunil Wickramasinghe told the BBC in Colombo. "And we are committed to buy that milk."

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