The Ministry of Agriculture says that after three seasons, necessary steps will be taken to provide mud fertilizer free of charge to all the 12 lakh rice farmers in Sri Lanka from today (20).
For this, a stock of 36,000 metric tons of triple superior fertilizer was imported from Egypt to this country, and the stock was officially handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday (19). Accordingly, the first batch of 11,537 metric tons of manure will be distributed to all the districts of the northern and eastern provinces from today.