fertliser ban

by |05 September 202117 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Sunday Times As Sri Lanka banned the usage and import of chemical fertiliser for agriculture production – for both domestic agriculture and plantation agriculture -, I too received many requests from some of my regular readers to...

Threat on Food Security ‘Significant’ and could be ‘Imminent’: Survey

by |29 August 202105 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on The Island Over 90% of commercial farmers involved in a survey conducted among 1,042 farmers, in all the nine provinces, of the country say they currently use chemical fertiliser, and almost all of them expect reduction in their...

Most Farmers Support Move Towards Organic Farming – Survey

by |29 August 202105 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on Sunday Observer Almost two-thirds of the farmers are supportive of the Government’s vision to move Sri Lanka into organic agriculture, according to a survey on the ban on the import of chemical fertiliser conducted by Verité Research recently....

Verité Research releases results of island-wide farmers’ survey on fertiliser ban

by |25 August 202116 September 2021|Press Release

On April 22, 2021, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced a ban on the import of chemical fertiliser in Sri Lanka. Verité Research conducted a “Farmers’ Pulse” telephone survey to elicit the views of farmers, on this policy and its expected impact....

රසායනික පොහොර නැතිකම වැඩිපුර දැනෙන්නේ කාට ද? – Nishan de Mel on Pathikada

by |18 August 202113 September 2021|Interviews & Articles

Executive Director joins Pathikada on News1st to discuss the Farmers' Pulse survey regarding the chemical fertilizer ban in Sri Lanka.