Sri Lanka, March 24 -- Ensuring food security in the country and people remains a top priority of the government, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has emphasised.

Accordingly, the President instructed the Ministry of Agriculture and private sector companies to jointly formulate a programme to maintain sufficient fertiliser stocks in the market, so as to ensure an uninterrupted supply to farmers during the forthcoming Yala season.

These instructions were issued during a discussion held today (24) at the Presidential Secretariat with officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Chief Executive Officers of fertiliser importing companies, according to the President's Media Division (PMD).

In light of disruptions to supply chains caused b...