The Ministry of Agriculture has recently requested permission from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to import pesticides and fungicides required for selected crops in limited quantities. “Especially during the rainy season, some pesticides and fungicides are needed for certain crops, given the fact that very organic agrochemicals are not available in Sri Lanka. In that case, we need to have limited quantities of pesticides and fungicides. It was therefore decided to bring in some pesticides and fungicides in limited quantities and to store such, and the relevant arrangements are currently being made in that regard,” he added. So we requested the President to grant permission to bring in a very small quantity of such (pesticides and fungicides),” he added.

Source: The Nation November 19, 2021 06:04 UTC