Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa regrets banning chemical fertilisers and not going to IMF for bailout earlier

Rajapaksa also said his government should have opted to go for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout much earlier. "It was a mistake not to go". Speaking to his newly inducted Cabinet Ministers, the president termed his decision to ban chemical fertilisers in farming "a mistake" and that corrective steps were being taken now.

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