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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by phkahler on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:16AM (#28444388)
>> According to experts, three scientifically rigorous meta-analyses of organic-conventional crop yield comparisons indicate that across all crops, the mean yield reduction in organic agriculture in Sri Lanka is around 19-25 per cent.

For a country that is a "net food importer" it seems obvious that would cause some kind of shock. The other stuff:

>> Eminent researchers have also noted that organic farming increases farmland due to its low yields. This results in deforestation, leading to large scale extinction of species and a rise in greenhouse emissions.

Longer term. Not relevant to this situation. There is also research showing the opposite, but again that's not the immediate isse.

>> organic agriculture generates more air pollutants and environmental emissions in the crop production process for a unit of food than chemical farming.

Not relevant. Notice the exclusion of pollutants in the chemical (fertilizer) production process. But again, not relevant to the current situation.

>> organic farming has exponentially higher monetary input costs due to a lack of usage of pest and pathogen-resistant chemicals, which increases manual labour, according to experts

"exponentially" is an exaggeration. The formerly mentioned increase in area means increase in labor.

>> The additional processing and marketing costs of organic produce is also significantly higher, analysts said.

You don't really need to do ANY marketing when the government mandated that everyone do it.

There's a lot here that's basically anti-organic, but the real problem is that it's simply more expensive, requiring a more land and labor and they didn't account for any of that in the rapid transition.

Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:43AM (#28444736)
"Exponentially" is worse than an exaggeration, it just makes no sense. The word describes curves (where the input, usually the horizontal axis, is an input or time), not pairs of points such as (organic, price) and (conventional, price).