Sri Lanka, July 25 -- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's detractors are not relenting in their opposition to the organic fertiliser project.

They say it's 'chemical phobia' and are in the process of whipping up some of the rural cultivator community in protest against the new policy.

Phobia or not is not the point. This is also about organic farming. Now, nobody needs to be told particularly that organic is the vogue tendency the world over, in farming and in the sale of agricultural produce.

Organically grown food fetches three or four times more the normal prices everywhere in the world, and in this country too, especially in the chic specialty markets in Colombo.

So, whatever anyone may say about it, this project and goal is idealistic...