Health OR Wealth ? Changing tunes on the Glyphosate ban
The banned chemical Glyphosate made headlines recently as Minister of Plantation Industries Navin Dissanayake ruffled a few feathers addressing the Annual General Meeting of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon held last month. The Minister said the government was likely to allow importing 800,000 litres of the banned weed killer Glyphosate essential for tea plantations over the next few months. “I am sure, maybe in two or three months I can have a formula in place” the Minister was quoted as saying.
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The Minister had also noted that discussions with the Head of State was underway to negotiate the import of Glyphosate for the ailing tea industry, which would however be in violation of President Maithripala Sirisena’s plans for a toxin-free nation.
