{"id":120456,"date":"2021-11-20T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120456"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:35:15","slug":"hiru-cia-substandard-compost-fertilizer-racket-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/20\/hiru-cia-substandard-compost-fertilizer-racket-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiru CIA: Substandard compost fertilizer racket (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> With the policy decision taken by the government to expand the use of organic fertilizers by restricting the use of chemical fertilizers, a serious crisis situation has arisen regarding fertilizers in the country.<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0db6\u0db1\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dc4\u0ddc\u0dbb \u0da2\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0db8 - \u0d95\u0da9\u0dbb\u0dca \u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0d87\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQsgOApP1L4?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>Against such a backdrop, the Hiru CIA today (20) revealed about a new racket in the Kurunegala area that is distributing substandard compost manure island wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This center which produces and distributes fertilizer on a large scale throughout the country is located in the Giribawa area in Kurunegala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A well known fertilizer company in the country has placed an order to supply 60,000 kilograms of fertilizer per week with this center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiru CIA investigation revealed that in addition to supplying the fertilizer, the factory also packs the fertilizer under a different name and releases it to the market on a large scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiru CIA team arrived at the scene to uncover how the compost fertilizer racket is being carried out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News With the policy decision taken by the government to expand the use of organic fertilizers by restricting the use of chemical fertilizers, a serious crisis situation has arisen regarding fertilizers in the country. Against such a backdrop, the Hiru CIA today (20) revealed about a new racket in the Kurunegala area that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456","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=120456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}