Govt. to ban tobacco cultivation
January 18, 2011 09:34 am
Measures will be taken in the future to ban tobacco cultivation in Sri Lanka as all farmers should be directed towards growing food crops, Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena told Ada Derana.
The Minister further stated that fertilizer subsidies will not be granted to tobacco cultivators in the future as the government advised all tobacco cultivators to switch to growing different crops.