Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news

ADVENTUS · 26 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Fri May 07, 2021 6:29 pm

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Is this the primary reason why CIC crashed recently? Crop yields in tea sector will be effected quite badly.

dayandacool · 27 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Wed May 12, 2021 12:11 am

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An ill-advised unplanned decision can topple an entire industry. Shocked

https://ceylontoday.lk/news/decision-could-devastate-tea-plantations-lcelu-president

samaritan · 28 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Wed May 12, 2021 9:59 am

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dayandacool wrote:An ill-advised unplanned decision can topple an entire industry.

https://ceylontoday.lk/news/decision-could-devastate-tea-plantations-lcelu-president

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dayandacool · 29 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun May 16, 2021 10:38 am

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Well, at least professionals in the subject field is trying their best to make a voice against ad hoc measures. It's the responsibility of those who are in power to heed their call instead of going for cheap heroism and propaganda. The writer of the below article is a Professor of Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya not an A-LEVEL BIOLOGY TEACHER!!!!

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210509/sunday-times-2/organic-fertiliser-only-policy-will-plunge-lanka-into-a-food-crisis-442857.html

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Please read at least the last paragraph of the article and the suggestions given. Very Happy

ADVENTUS · 30 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun May 16, 2021 4:36 pm

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dayandacool wrote:Well, at least professionals in the subject field is trying their best to make a voice against ad hoc measures. It's the responsibility of those who are in power to heed their call instead of going for cheap heroism and propaganda. The writer of the below article is a Professor of Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya not an A-LEVEL BIOLOGY TEACHER!!!!

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210509/sunday-times-2/organic-fertiliser-only-policy-will-plunge-lanka-into-a-food-crisis-442857.html

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Please read at least the last paragraph of the article and the suggestions given.

100%
We will see another 1973-77 period if they don't get their act together.

celtic tiger · 31 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun May 16, 2021 6:07 pm

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dayandacool wrote:Well, at least professionals in the subject field is trying their best to make a voice against ad hoc measures. It's the responsibility of those who are in power to heed their call instead of going for cheap heroism and propaganda. The writer of the below article is a Professor of Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya not an A-LEVEL BIOLOGY TEACHER!!!!

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210509/sunday-times-2/organic-fertiliser-only-policy-will-plunge-lanka-into-a-food-crisis-442857.html

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Please read at least the last paragraph of the article and the suggestions given.
Thanks for the link.
We, south Asians lagged behind three industrial revolutions and if we continue in the same path as past ,we will miss the 4th as well.
Bada saha baya thamai ape??????

dayandacool · 32 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun May 16, 2021 9:50 pm

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celtic tiger wrote:

dayandacool wrote:Well, at least professionals in the subject field is trying their best to make a voice against ad hoc measures. It's the responsibility of those who are in power to heed their call instead of going for cheap heroism and propaganda. The writer of the below article is a Professor of Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya not an A-LEVEL BIOLOGY TEACHER!!!!

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210509/sunday-times-2/organic-fertiliser-only-policy-will-plunge-lanka-into-a-food-crisis-442857.html

@celtic tiger

Please read at least the last paragraph of the article and the suggestions given.
Thanks for the link.
We, south Asians lagged behind three industrial revolutions and if we continue in the same path as past ,we will miss the 4th as well.
Bada saha baya thamai ape??????

Bada kese wethath, Baya wenna deyak naha wede hariyata karoth. but ad hoc moves could only make it worse. I guess we all agree that organic food culture is best going forward. But proper planning and implementation needs to be done prior taking drastic measures such as complete ban on chemical fertilizer.

If it's well planned and implemented as a national policy, we could at least hope to be successful in achieving said goals. But just by doing things as per one person's will or what he saw in his dreams over night could not only have adverse impact in near future but also when a future government would truly plan and commit to a such program, the farmers and other stake holders will not take it seriously sighting the failures of the previous attempt. So if they do it, might as well plan and implement it stage by stage within a decade or so rather than print gazettes overnight only to reverse them back in few weeks like what we have seen in recent past. Very Happy

dayandacool · 33 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:20 am

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Now then, didn't we see this coming and isn't it alarming??

Farmers left high and dry with no fertiliser, organic or chemical
https://www.sundaytimes.lk/210627/news/farmers-left-high-and-dry-with-no-fertiliser-organic-or-chemical-447478.html

Destitute farmers on the verge of selling land
https://www.sundaytimes.lk/210627/news/destitute-farmers-on-the-verge-of-selling-land-447485.html

[ltr]100K MT of rice to be imported: Blame game between Government and farmers[/ltr]

[ltr]https://www.themorning.lk/100k-mt-of-rice-to-be-imported-blame-game-between-government-and-farmers/[/ltr]

Hawk Eye · 34 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:41 am

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We got enlightened on the Organic Food suddenly after the impact Corona Virus had made to us as an inefficient Nation . That is also because we went out of Dollars in Government coffers. So rather admitting the administrative inefficiency and blunders they are talking about Organic Foods.

Did we have a plan of converting to Organic practices, Research, Education and everything systematically brought in to the minds of people through the education system.

Our Governments and the rulers are more happy showing more tele dramas based on vengeance than building a quality Nation.

Only a Organic mind can think of Organic

dayandacool · 35 Re: Ban of chemical fertilizers is a great news Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:48 am

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"Did we have a plan of converting to Organic practices, Research, Education and everything systematically brought in to the minds of people through the education system"

This is exactly my point. Systematical implementation is missing from this bold move. It's like even though government wanted to make an action movie, at the end it will end up being a disastrous comedy.