{"id":119676,"date":"2021-10-28T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119676"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:50:41","slug":"farmers-in-bakamuna-continue-hunger-strike-for-fifth-day-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/28\/farmers-in-bakamuna-continue-hunger-strike-for-fifth-day-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers in Bakamuna continue hunger strike for fifth day (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Farmers in various parts of the country protested today as well, claiming that they are unable to cultivate due to the lack of fertilizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a protest in Hambantota the protesters handed over a letter to the Hambantota District Secretary requesting 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\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dbb \u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dba\u0da7 \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dba\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf - \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dcf\u0db1\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dc3\u0dd4\u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0da0\u0db1 \u0dc4\u0dbb\u0db9 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9f8IqSe7cIY?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>Representatives of 41 farmers&#8217; organizations in the Bakamuna area have continued their fast for the fifth day of the hunger strike. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa also arrived at the scene in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Governor of the North Central Province Mahipala Herath inspected an organic fertilizer factory in Habarawatta, Anuradhapura which is successfully operating by distributing organic fertilizer to farmers in the Anuradhapura District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many crops including banana, papaya, long beans and chillies have been successfully cultivated in 4 acres of land using organic fertilizer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Farmers in various parts of the country protested today as well, claiming that they are unable to cultivate due to the lack of fertilizer. During a protest in Hambantota the protesters handed over a letter to the Hambantota District Secretary requesting fertilizer. Representatives of 41 farmers&#8217; organizations in the Bakamuna area have [&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-119676","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\/119676","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=119676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}