All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owners' Association

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Background

All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owners' Association (Barn Owners’ Association) is an association of the barn owners registered with the Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC). CTC is the subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), holding the monopoly of cigarette manufacturing and sales in Sri Lanka.[1] As of 2019 February, Jayantha Egodawela was the president of the Barn Owners’ Association.


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Image : All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owners' Association representatives at a press briefing[2]

Tobacco Related Activities by the Barn Owners’ Association

Opposing Divisional Level Tobacco Control Efforts

District and Divisional agriculture officials received a letter written by J. Dadallage, the Prime Minister's Public Relations Advisor dated 26th August 2017. The letter referred to a meeting held on 16th August 2017 at the Public Relations Division, Prime Minister’s office with the Barn Owners Association. Dadallage requested the officials to stop the field level efforts to transfer the tobacco farmers from tobacco to alternative non-tobacco crops.[3]

Meetings with the Ministers of Finance

Meeting with Minister Ravi Karunanayakae

The members of the Barn Owner’s Association met the Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake in March 2017 to object to the government’s plan to eliminate tobacco cultivation.[4]

An appeal to the Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera

On 22nd March 2018, The Barn Owner’s Association handed over an appeal to the Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera regarding the proposed tobacco cultivation ban.[5]

Letters to the President and Prime Minister

Barn Owner’s Association communicated the interests of the tobacco industry to the President and Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on several occasions. For more details please refer the page Jayantha Egodawela, the president of the Barn Owners’ Association.

  • Letter to the President Maithreepala Sirisena on 29th November 2015.[6]
  • Letter to the President Maithripala Sirisena on 12th September 2016. [7]
  • Letter to the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe on 09th August 2017.[8]

A Media Briefing against the National Forum on Tobacco Cultivation Elimination

Centre for Combatting Tobacco organised a national forum titled Tobacco Cultivation in Sri Lanka- The Past, Present and the Future to disseminate its research findings on the stakeholders’ perceptions on the government’s plan to eliminate tobacco cultivation by 2020. The Barn Owners’ Association organised a press briefing on 16th March 2018 in response to the National Forum and criticised its findings. For more details please visit he page Jayantha Egodawela.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][2]

A Bodhi Pooja Against the Ban on Tobacco Cultivation

Barn Owners' Association organised a “Bodhi Pooja” against the proposed ban at Sri Sambodhi Viharaya at Kalegama, Dehiattakandiya, in October 2017.[17][18][19] For more details visit our page A Bodhi Pooja against the Tobacco Cultivation Ban

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Notes

  1. ↑ Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC. Annual Report 2016, 2017, accessed May 2017
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The business Times. All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owner’s Association implores Government to withdraw proposed immediate ban on tobacco cultivation, 20 March 2018, Accessed January 2019
  3. ↑ Dadallage. J. Letter from J. Dadallage, The Advisor, Prime Minister's Public Relations to the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs TobaccoUnmasked Archive, 26 August 2017, Accessed January 2019
  4. ↑ Daily FT. [://web.archive.org/web/20181231051546/http://www.ft.lk/business/all-ceylon-cigarette-tobacco-barn-owners-take-plightto-ravi-k/34-606854 All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owners take plight to Ravi K] 31 March 2017, Accessed December 2018
  5. ↑ Jayantha godawela. සිගරට් දුම් උදුන් හිමි සංගමයෙන් මුදල් ඇමතිට අභියාචනයක් ,22 March 2018, Accessed December 2018
  6. ↑ Jayantha Egodawela. Letter from barn owners association All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn owners Association to the president, TobaccoUnmasked Archive, 29 November 2015, Accessed January 2019
  7. ↑ Jayantha Egodawela. Letter 2 from barn owners association All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn owners Association to the president, TobaccoUnmasked Archive, 12 September 2016, Accessed February 2019
  8. ↑ Jayantha Egodawela. Letter from barn owners association All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn owners Association to the Prime Minister, TobaccoUnmasked Archive, 9 August 2017, Accessed January 2019
  9. ↑ Sunday Leader. urged to withdraw proposed ban on tobacco cultivation, 18 March 2018, Accessed December 2018
  10. ↑ Daily FT [1] 20March 2018, Accessed December 2018
  11. ↑ C. Wettasingha. Looming ban on tobacco cultivation fast-tracked, accuse farmers, Daily Mirror, 19 March 2018, Accessed December 2018
  12. ↑ S. Dias. Govt. on drive to snuff out tobacco, cigarette puff Sunday Times, 18 March 2018, Accessed December 2018
  13. ↑ Ada Derana. Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owner’s Association implores Government to withdraw proposed immediate ban on tobacco cultivation 19 March 2018,Accessed December 2018
  14. ↑ Daily News. Livelihood of over 300,000 tobacco farmer community in jeopardy 19 March 2018, Accessed January 2019
  15. ↑ Tobacco Reporter. Cultivation ban opposed 19 March 2018], Accessed January 2019
  16. ↑ LankaWeb. Cultivation ban opposed 19 March 2018, Accessed January 2019
  17. ↑ Ceylon Today. Tobacco farmers seek divine assistance to avert imminent tobacco cultivation ban, 20 October 2017, accessed March 2018
  18. ↑ Sri Lanka Mirror. Tobacco Farmers seek Religious Blessings, 18 October 2018, accessed March 2018
  19. ↑ Interviewslk. දුම්කොළ ගොවීන්ට බෝධි පුජා පවත්වන්න සිද්ධ වුනේඇයි?, You Tube, 19 October 2017, Accessed March 2018
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