{"id":121461,"date":"2021-12-24T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121461"},"modified":"2021-12-24T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T23:45:10","slug":"former-agriculture-secretary-exposes-fertilizer-fraud-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/24\/former-agriculture-secretary-exposes-fertilizer-fraud-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Agriculture Secretary exposes fertilizer fraud (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Former Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Prof. Udith K. Jayasinghe stated that there was a fraud in importing nano fertilizer at a higher price.<\/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=\"\u0dc3\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0d9a\u0db8\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dc5\u0dcf - \u0db8\u0dc4\u0d87\u0daf\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0d8b\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca - \u0daf\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dca \u0d8b\u0db1\u0dca\u0da7 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0db3 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0db3 \u0d85\u0db4\u0dd2 \u0dba\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0ddd\u0db1 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjQsuYUfGzw?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>He pointed out that a bottle of nano liquid fertilizer, which could have been bought for USD 5.25, has been bought for USD 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, farmers are still complaining that their crops are being destroyed due to the substandard fertilizer that was provided by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers in Welikanda, Susirigama, and Malinda villages in the Mahaweli B zone in the Polonnaruwa district have been affected in this manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is due to the fact that the paddy cultivations cultivated under the Maha season this year have turned yellow, and the growth has slowed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers in these areas have cultivated paddy in an area of \u200b\u200bnearly 1000 acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the government provides organic liquid fertilizer for these crops, farmers refuse to use them due to their substandard quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Agrarian Union today (24) responded to the statement made by Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage that there will be no food shortage in the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Prof. Udith K. Jayasinghe stated that there was a fraud in importing nano fertilizer at a higher price. He pointed out that a bottle of nano liquid fertilizer, which could have been bought for USD 5.25, has been bought for USD 10. Meanwhile, farmers are [&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-121461","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\/121461","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=121461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}