{"id":73248,"date":"2017-12-29T14:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73248"},"modified":"2017-12-29T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:41:47","slug":"fertilizer-shortage-govt-should-compensate-farmers-wimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/29\/fertilizer-shortage-govt-should-compensate-farmers-wimal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertilizer shortage: Govt. should compensate farmers &#8211; Wimal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>The government should provide compensation to the farmers, who were affected due to the prevailing shortage of fertilizer, leader of National Freedom Front (NFF), Wimal Weerawansa said today<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sarath291217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sarath291217.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sarath291217-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I keep wondering why cabinet ministers .deputy ministers, State Ministers, provincial Ministers .Ministry Secretaries ,\u00a0 Directors ,Area agricuktural officers did not notice the imminent\u00a0 shortage in advance ?<\/p>\n<p>Government gives room to opposition to make noise knowingly about the imminent shortage.<\/p>\n<p>They did not notice the rice shortage and HE calls Pakistani president to send rice and fertilizer.<br \/>\nI am quite confident that Spot Buying od commodities ( like petroleum products)\u00a0 is the latest way of getting kick backs ?<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for the poor masses for being hood winked by corrupt politicians<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 The government should provide compensation to the farmers, who were affected due to the prevailing shortage of fertilizer, leader of National Freedom Front (NFF), Wimal Weerawansa said today I keep wondering why cabinet ministers .deputy ministers, State Ministers, provincial Ministers .Ministry Secretaries ,\u00a0 Directors ,Area agricuktural officers did not notice the imminent\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73248","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=73248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}