Posted on February 16th, 2021 by Garvin Karunaratne Sky rocketing prices of vegetables and fruit has happened to be the order of the day. Once we did have a method to control inflation by ensuring that traders cannot keep a fat margin. That was the system built up by Sri Lankan administrators RH Basset and BLW Fernando Commissioners of the Department for Development of Agricultural Marketing. This system was worked in a perfect manner from the Fifties till the late Seventies, when we bowed to the IMF and abandoned it. I enclose a Paper written by me a few years ago which details the