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, 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.
Facepalm. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Surely the way to proceed is to establish models and successful centerpoints, then expand them over time in order to achieve an overall transition, not shove untested operations down the throat of the entire population of farmers en masse.
Facepalm. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Surely the way to proceed is to establish models and successful centerpoints, then expand them over time in order to achieve an overall transition, not shove untested operations down the throat of the entire population of farmers en masse.