{"id":121322,"date":"2021-12-19T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121322"},"modified":"2021-12-19T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:29:22","slug":"vegetable-shortage-is-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/19\/vegetable-shortage-is-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vegetable shortage is inevitable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to intervene in the problems of vegetable farmers and find a solution as soon as possible, says the Chairman of the All Ceylon Special Economic Centers Association Aruna Shantha Hettiarachchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was held at the Prime Minister&#8217;s official residence in Nuwara Eliya today.<\/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\u0dc4\u0dc3 \u0d8b\u0dc3\u0da7 \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d91\u0dc5\u0dc0\u0dc5\u0dd4 \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dbd - \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dbd\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7 \u0d85\u0d9c\u0db8\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db8\u0dd0\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dc4\u0dad\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-rd-mGVgZ4?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>The All Ceylon Dedicated Economic Centers Association has emphasized to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa that there may be a shortage of vegetables in the future due to the prevailing situation and that the shortage of vegetables can be prevented only if chemical fertilizers are provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he said vegetable prices in the market continued to rise and there could be a severe shortage of vegetables by May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, consumers complain that there is no longer enough milk powder in the market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to intervene in the problems of vegetable farmers and find a solution as soon as possible, says the Chairman of the All Ceylon Special Economic Centers Association Aruna Shantha Hettiarachchi. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister&#8217;s official residence in Nuwara Eliya today. The All [&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-121322","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\/121322","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=121322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}