CIC compost stockpiling fixed

The Agricultural Ministry has fixed a compost storeroom having a place with CIC manure organization in the wake of finding that compost, put away there in break of appropriate models, has a high substance of the kidney ailment creating cadmium.

One kilo of compost ought to contain under 5 mg, yet the manure put away there had more than 20 mg for every kilo.
Horticulture priest present at assault

Horticulture service authorities, drove by priest Duminda Dissanayake were available at the assault of the manure storeroom yesterday (24).





Dissanayake said examinations affirmed a high substance of cadmium in the compost, imported in June in rupture of regulations of the Sri Lanka Standard Institution.