Posted on 07/10/2022 8:09:33 AM PDT by Rebelbase
A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery.
Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised in his 2019 election campaign to transition the country’s farmers to organic agriculture over a period of 10 years. Last April (2021), Rajapaksa’s government made good on that promise, imposing a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic.
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.
By November 2021, with tea production falling, the government partially lifted its fertilizer ban on key export crops, including tea, rubber, and coconut. Faced with angry protests, soaring inflation, and the collapse of Sri Lanka’s currency, the government finally suspended the policy for several key crops—including tea, rubber, and coconut—last month, although it continues for some others. The government is also offering $200 million to farmers as direct compensation and an additional $149 million in price subsidies to rice farmers who incurred losses.
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And with the Russo-Ukraine war, Sri Lanka may find synthetic fertilizers unavailable.
That is the perfect description of government "green" energy infatuations. With just a few changes, it describes the US energy industry perfectly:
The result was brutal and swift. Against claims that green energy can produce comparable yields to conventional energy, domestic energy production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. The United States, long self-sufficient in energy production, has been forced to import tens of billions of dollars of fossil fuels even as domestic prices for this staple of the national economy surged by around 50 percent.Central planning is a massive failure time and again everywhere it is tried through history.
NOTICE!!! Anyone taking Ceylon Cinnamon as a blood glucose regulator may want to stock up, given the disaster in Sri Lanka.
The Madagascar and Vietnam cinnamon are a different species, and do not regulate blood glucose anywhere near as well, if at all. No country of origin means possibly Indonesia or China, with all that a Chinese source implies...
Look it up.
Unless the greenies get their way like in Sri Lanka and possibly the Netherlands. Then Malthus will unfortunately be proven right.
Insanity is rampant among the Left.
Having handed its agricultural policy over to organic true believers, many of them involved in businesses that would stand to benefit from the fertilizer ban...
The president’s palace was plundered by angry mobs following his abandonment. I believe it was burned to the ground.
Special interests contribute, no doubt. But special interests weren’t at work in the Bolsheviks, the Soviets, Mao, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela or any other communist dictatorship. The ruling elite wanted to enrich themselves at the expense of the peasants and middle classes and cloaked themselves with “power to the people.” In Sri Lanka, the ruling elite was all too happy to enlist the green special interests to cement their power.
It seems as Egypt is jumping on the climate bandwagon. I am going on a three week cruise, and one of the stop overs was Sharm el Sheikh . But our cruise line had to cancel that stop over because the UN is having a climate change conference COP27 at that time.Its funny they picked a beach resort area...Who is paying for all of that? We are ,as the US pays the majority of their budget.
I think by the time COP27 is held in Egypt, climate change advocacy is going to lose their appeal in the face of high gas prices and food shortages.
And in other news...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62111900
So, a heat island or mountain? That has got to influence the weather patterns. I wonder if there is any research published on this.
Nothing "went wrong," so-called "organic" farming (all farming is organic) simply can't -- never could and never will -- produce anywhere near as many calories per acre as methods using man-made pesictides, herbicides and fertilizers.
If all earth's arable lands had been switched to "organic" methods at the beginning of the 21st Century, we now would be in our second decade of mass starvation.
I read something this morning that the President of Sri Lanka is going to resign.
The Prime Minster’s house was burned. The Presidential palace is still occupied by the people.
Many western (leftist) NGOs and governments have counseled the 3rd world on terrible policies. The Germany Government, for example, has tied its aid and trade to South Africa to implementation of "green energy" policies. This has, and will be, a disaster for South Africa, which now has seemingly permanent, daily power-rationing.
I'd love to see a list of corrupt Western NGOs and politicians involved in pushing this disaster on Sri Lanka.
You’re not supposed to use dog or cat manure let alone human manure. (well you would if you wanted a lot of infections.)
So we’re going to need a lot of cow, goat, and poultry manure.
At that time we had a few goats so they liked to eat the stems...also artichoke leaves were goats favorite.
This is why I have started gardening in earnest.
I still have a lot to learn and some years of soil improvement to work on, but it’s getting there.
This plan is the Hippie-Dippy NWO reset and is going exactly as planned. So now it is on to the EU.
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