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Most of Sri Lanka’s leading agricultural experts were kept out of crafting the agricultural section of the platform, which included promises to phase out synthetic fertilizer, develop 2 million organic home gardens to help feed the country’s population, and turn the country’s forests and wetlands over to the production of biofertilizer...The result was brutal and swift. Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.
originally posted by: BernnieJGato
a reply to: ElGoobero
should have used chicken sh@@, that stuff will make anything grow like crazy. but use to much it burn it up. to much nitrogen.
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
originally posted by: BernnieJGato
a reply to: ElGoobero
should have used chicken sh@@, that stuff will make anything grow like crazy. but use to much it burn it up. to much nitrogen.
Quite true. Some lime, or letting it sit for a month will stop it from burning up your plants.
originally posted by: LastFirst
Yeah, college educated Right 👍..
I mean they are definitely big idiots.
Who wants educated people making decisions.
When first run hypothesis don't pan out..just quit..
I mean who needs improvement and progress?
originally posted by: vonclod
Commercial farming practice is terrible for everything other than yield, all filler, no killer. It's garbage really, destroys the soil, has poor nutrient quality..I can go on.
So, their idea was in line with better practices, but maybe poorly implemented. I think a 20% decrease in yield is probably not unusual in an organic farm vs full on chem farming.
In November 2021, Sri Lanka abandoned its plan to become the world's first organic farming nation following rising food prices and weeks of protests against the plan.
sounds like college-educated idiot politicians