Sri Lanka is witnessing daily farmer protests demanding fertilisers for their crops. The farmer protests come as the government imposed a ban on chemical fertilisers in May 2021. The govt’s move to ban chemical fertilisers was to make Sri Lanka the world’s first 100% organic farming nation. However, the new policy has sparked an angry response from farmers who say that the country faces a ‘crop failure’. In October, Sri Lanka banned Chinese organic fertilisers after the country allegedly found harmful bacterias in it. Sri Lanka is now receiving non-harmful Nano Nitrogen liquid fertiliser from India to boost its paddy and maize cultivation.
