{"id":119535,"date":"2021-10-24T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119535"},"modified":"2021-10-24T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:42:26","slug":"a-referendum-on-organic-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/24\/a-referendum-on-organic-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"A REFERENDUM ON ORGANIC FARMING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Organic\nfarming is the best method that should apply in agriculture, but immediately\nchanging the current practices may create problems for farmers in Sri Lanka. In\nhistory, there were no inorganic fertilisers and agrochemicals. Since the late\n1950s, farmers have been used chemical fertiliser and agrochemicals with\nsupports of government advisors and private companies promotion. There were\ncertain positive results from the use of inorganic fertilisers and chemicals.\nThe major results were pest control and an increase in productivity. However,\nmany harmful results could have emerged from the chemicals that did not\nconsider, and later the truth about the use of chemicals was revealed. The\nharmful results were cancer and kidney problems. The president of Sri Lanka\nwants to change the situation and go back to organic farming. It is a moral\ndecision, however, the decision implementation was not educating farmers, and\nthe government\u2019s attempts have provoked farmers. It shows some political\nparties and private companies have joined with the protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nmembers of parliament and in councils should come forward without political\ndifferences and the process of changing the forming should go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfollowing points need to consider in the transformation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is the difference\nbetween inorganic and organic forming should educate the community.<\/li><li>The change of farming\nwould have negative results for farmers and compensation should pay farmers. <\/li><li>For organic products\nshould pay high prices and organic farmers should be paid an encouraging\nallowance.<\/li><li>Educating farmers should\nbe in small groups at the village level, and the media needs to take part.<\/li><li>Implementing the use for\norganic farming should be on small samples, and politics on this matter should\nbe avoided. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The best method that the government to give\npublicity is conducting a referendum islandwide and getting approval from the\npublic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Organic farming is the best method that should apply in agriculture, but immediately changing the current practices may create problems for farmers in Sri Lanka. In history, there were no inorganic fertilisers and agrochemicals. Since the late 1950s, farmers have been used chemical fertiliser and agrochemicals with supports of government advisors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}