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Farmers To Gain As Complex Fertilisers Get Cheaper, More Accessible THE government on Thursday cleared a new fertiliser pricing policy that will make some varieties cheaper and help farmers, but the industry said it was only a tentative first step toward price decontrol. "The prices of complex fertilisers will come down by Rs 1,416 per tonne or Rs 70 per bag There will, however, be no change in prices of urea, MOP, DAP and SSP during 2008-09,' finance minister P Chidambaram told reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA).

The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has declared June as the 'Nutrition Month' under the direction of Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. This is aimed at upgrading the nutrition level of infants, children and mothers, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said Sri Lanka's infant and maternal mortality rate is very low when comparing with the other countries of the world but the people's interest in nutrition is very unsatisfactory. Due to this situation, people do not follow proper methods to preserve nutrition when preparing food.

A series of awareness programmes will be mooted to combat iron deficiency among expectant mothers and children, to mark the National Nutrition Month which begins on June 2. The Family Health Bureau, Health Education Bureau and the Medical Research Institute will implement the programmes, an Information Ministry release said. According to the Family Health Bureau, in Sri Lanka 30 per cent of expectant mothers and 20 per cent of children are suffering from iron-deficiency.

the Indian Medical Association (ima) will now endorse PepsiCo's Tropicana fruit juices and its breakfast cereal Quaker Oats