The Minister of Agriculture assured that imported organic fertilizer is free from disease generating micro-organism.

The Ministry of Agriculture totally refuses the allegations appearing in social media and certain national media channels that there are micro-organism in imported organic nitrogen fertilizer harmful to plant, animal and human life.

Those fertilizer are imported only from fertilizer manufacturers having international organic fertilizer production certificate. In order to confirm this fertilizer production methodology, organic fertilizer is imported only from ISO 17065 certified companies. The Ministry of Agriculture further emphasize the fact that only the imported organic fertilizer certified by accredited laboratories having ISO 17025 analyze each parameters are distributed among farmers which are not harmful to plant, animal and human life whatsoever.

Therefore the Ministry of Agriculture requests the people not to be any doubtful or feared to use imported organic fertilizer.