Sri Lanka, Nov. 2 -- The Ministry of Plantations and Community Infrastructure announced that the implementation of the QR-based tea fertilizer distribution system, introduced to address challenges in providing fertilizer subsidies to tea farmers, has recorded significant progress.

Aimed at achieving the national target of increasing Sri Lanka's annual tea production to 400 million kilograms and tea export revenue to USD 2.5 billion by 2030, the islandwide distribution of fertilizer under the new QR system commenced on October 1. This initiative has helped resolve longstanding issues associated with the previous fertilizer subsidy mechanism.

Introduced in September, the new QR system was designed to overcome problems such as the exclusiv...