Sri Lanka, June 14 -- Farmers who have been waiting for fertiliser for several months to commence cultivation for the Yala season will at last see the light of the day with the assurance from the Government that it will be supplied for all crops soon.

Co-Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture, Dr. Ramesh Pathirana said the issue is being sorted out and added that farmers will receive fertiliser for all crops within a couple of weeks.

"We have taken up the matter and it will be solved soon enabling cultivation and an increase of yield during the Yala season," the Minister said, accusing the former government of failing to pay the bills which the current government had to foot to ensure an uninterru...