President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had decided to impose a total ban on agrochemicals in May to make Sri Lanka farming 100% organic.
Sri Lanka has received 3.1 million litres of high quality non-harmful Nano nitrogen Fertilizer from India to cultivate Maize and Paddy, Agriculture secretary prof Udith Jayasinghe said.
This chemical is of High quality praise by prime minister Narendra Modi and non-harmful , Mr. Jayasinghe said. He said further more products to be made for maize and paddy cultivation.
Call to reconsider ban is going on in country as the production is going down. For Tea industry some ban has to be recall and uplift the ban in certain kind of chemical industry.
As tea production is going down government take decision to import Sulphate of ammonia in country.
He opted for local production of organic Fertilizer.
Analysts said this decision has taken to reserve U.S. dollars as Sri Lanka import 400 million U.S. dollars Fertilizers annually, President Rajapaksa said.