Agriculture Minister P Harrison has instructed relevant Ministry officials to prepare a mechanism to monitor the quality of commercial organic fertilizer.
During a meeting held recently with the fertilizer company officials at his Ministry, Agriculture Minister stressed the importance of monitoring the quality of locally produce organic fertilizer.
Saying that around 30 companies have already been registered at the Ministry for the production of organic fertilizer and the Minister questioned the reason for inquiring about the raw materials used by some of these registered companies.
The Minister instructed National Fertilizer Secretariat officials to inform organic fertilizer manufactures to use Eppawala phosphate instead of phosphorous.