In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong

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.

Seems like most fruit and vegetable recalls are on organic produce. I picked up groceries from Wal-Mart last week; they substituted organic cilantro for regular, same price, much smaller quantity. I threw it out; I figured I could eat the 88¢, rather than risk getting sick. It didn’t look to good, anyway.

"Food Tank, an advocacy group funded by the Rockefeller Foundation that promotes a phase-out of chemical fertilizers and subsidies in Sri Lanka,
has had nothing to say now that its favored policies have taken a disastrous turn."

PGR88 : "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."

What other proof is necessary to prove that "The New Green Deal" is nothing else than a man-made designed para-religious cult of self-sabotage .
If this was a religious movement we would call them self-appointed, narcissistic "zealots".
Actually, the "New Green New Deal" is a cult designed to promote and replace spirituality and religious devotion
of God with self appointed human pseudo-science and pseudo-virtue by the intellectually ignorant.
For reference , look to AOC and 'The Squad' for examples of intellectual ignorance.
They tell us that it is all for the common good, and for the sake of saving the climate and human habitation on the earth for the sake of the carefully selected few.
In reality, it is nothing more than Communism and Socialism wrapped up and packaged as a brand new package of death and control of the population.
Even the scriptures warn that we would know them "by the fruits of their labor", and the "New Green Deal" has no beneficial fruits
except to the movement's leadership and the ignorant trolls who advocate the cult.

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