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Sri Lanka’s organic farming crisis: Learning from failures -Gurudas Nulkar

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published Published on Sep 22, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 1, 2021

-Down to Earth

Sri Lanka has found itself in an economic crisis in pursuit of producing 100% organic food  

‘Lankan food crisis shows perils of organic farming’.

This was the headline of a column by Indian economist Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar column published in a national daily recently. Aiyar’s article analysed the Sri Lankan food crisis, which has been triggered by the President’s recent decision to shift from chemical to organic farming.

While the media pinned the blame on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, which obviously underestimated the drop in farm yields, Aiyar attributed the crisis to organic farming. He warned Indian states against it and expressed hope for genetically modified crops.

The negative social and environmental impacts of the Green Revolution are recognised as much as the lower farm yields and higher prices associated with organic produce are. However, an increasing body of research has placed its hope on organic farming to meet the global climate targets and conserve natural ecosystems.

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Down to Earth, 22 September, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/sri-lanka-s-organic-farming-crisis-learning-from-failures-79138


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