{"id":119589,"date":"2021-10-26T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119589"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:44:20","slug":"farmers-fast-demanding-fertilizer-active-for-third-day-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/26\/farmers-fast-demanding-fertilizer-active-for-third-day-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers fast demanding fertilizer active for third day (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Representatives of 41 farmers&#8217; organizations in the Bakamuna area in Polonnaruwa have commenced a continuous fast for the third consecutive day today (26) demanding fertilizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d85\u0d9c\u0dca\u0db6\u0ddd \u0dbb\u0da2\u0dd4 \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf \u0db1\u0db8\u0dca \u0d8b\u0dbd \u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf - \u0da2\u0dbd\u0dba \u0d85\u0db4\u0dad\u0dda \u0d9c\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dba\u0ddd \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dba\u0dda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HMa-JZqujg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, water was released from Maduruoya and Pimburaththewa reservoirs to the Mahaweli B zone for the Maha season this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there is strong opposition from farmers in the Mahaweli B zone regarding the release of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 33-year-old M.M. Subasinghe, a resident of Galaha Udadelthota area has successfully started producing organic fertilizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to Hiru News team he stated that he is currently producing about 1000 kilograms of organic fertilizer per month and there is a good demand for it from the farmers in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Representatives of 41 farmers&#8217; organizations in the Bakamuna area in Polonnaruwa have commenced a continuous fast for the third consecutive day today (26) demanding fertilizer. Meanwhile, water was released from Maduruoya and Pimburaththewa reservoirs to the Mahaweli B zone for the Maha season this year. However, there is strong opposition from farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-chemical-fertilizer-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}