Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster

Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by jjoonathan on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:27AM (#28444540)

> Chem-based clearly gives higher yields for a period of 50-80 years, but what happens after that?

You will have to keep moving the goalposts at a rate of 1 year per year, because it turns out that we understand which nutrients plants need and how to give them those nutrients.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by refurb on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:32AM (#28444595)

Exactly. What happens after 50-80 years? We continue to fertilize.

The alternative is massively expanding farmland so that it can lay fallow for 25% of the time and also to account for lower yields.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by tastyfreeze on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:17PM (#28447998)

We have enough successful regenerative farms now to prove that it is an effective way to produce food without destroying the environment. Human understanding of what is happening biologically in the soil has rapidly expanded in the last 20 years.

We do not need to fertilize. It takes about 3 years for yields of a farm converted from traditional to regenerative to meet pre-conversion yields. The quantity of land used doesn't change. It is just managed a different way.

Aside: organic and regenerative are not at all the same

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