The center was opened under the patronage of Mahaweli Zone Canals and Common Settlement Infrastructure Development State Minister Siripala Gamlath. The organic fertilizer requirement of the farmers in the Mahaweli L Zone is expected to be produced in this center at Helambawewa in Weli Oya. Sri Lanka Army and Civil Defense Force are assisting
the center.
It is expected to manufacture 1.4 million metric tons of organic fertilizer in the Organic Fertilizer Manufacturing Centers to be set up soon at Mahaweli Zonal level.
Addressing the official launch of the Mahaweli L Zone Organic Fertilizer Manufacturing Center at Helambawewa, Mahaweli Zone Canals and Common Settlement Infrastructure
Development State Minister Siripala Gamlath said a broaden program is afoot to give maximum support to achieve the goal of manufacturing organic fertilizer of President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Prolonged use of chemical fertilizer has destroyed the natural richness of our soil. That has forced our people to eat poisonous food thereby creating an ailing society, State
Minister Gamlath said. He also pointed out that the country lost a huge sum of foreign exchange due to the import of chemical fertilizer. Therefore preparing farmers to use organic fertilizer would secure the country economically as well as hygienically, he said. In addition, the State Minister said that organic home garden programs have been already started in Mahaweli Zones to enable Mahaweli farmers to produce their requirement of organic fertilizer within their farmstead and, Sri Lanka Mahaweli Authority has taken steps to guide them towards the program.
Vanni District MP and District Coordinating Committee Chairman Cadar Mastan, former deputy minister Premarathna Sumathipala, Director of Agriculture of the Mahaweli
Authority Neville Rajapaksha, Director of the Institutional Development Division Mahendra Abeywardana, Director of the Mahaweli Livestock Resources Development Thamara
Priyadarshani, Residential Enterprise Manager of the Mahaweli L Zone Kumararathna Herath, several Mahaweli Authority officials, officials of the Sri Lanka Army and the Civil
Defense Force and the area farmer organization representatives participated.
