Re:Ask HN: What is the future of the economy and government ...
by ngc248 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:42AM
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Similar to how the switch from non-renewable to renewable sources of energy can't be done in a jiffy, the switch to organic from non-organic cant be done in a matter of years. The yields are too low with organic farming. This lead them to importing food, for which they obviously they need foreign reserves and so on the cycle.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of the economy and government ...
by ncmncm on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:24PM
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> The yields are too low with organic farming.
Always repeated, never justified. Too low for what, exactly? Not too low to feed Sri Lankans. Maybe too low for that and also as much of export crops as had been needed to pay to import massive amounts of fertilizer and pesticide.
Importing food would be a much better use of foreign-trade money than importing pesticides.