In Sri Lanka the govt went green and stopped fertilizer imports a while back. They told the farmers to go organic.
What happened?
"Organic" is what happened. Anybody who ever put a plant in the ground knows that one minute after, the bugs, blight, viruses, bacteria and the weather (drought, too much rain or too much sun) will try to kill it. All soil is not alike and not all soil will grow different things without soil amendments, hence fertilizer, potassium, calcium, etc.
"Organic" tells you to pick the bugs off your plants.
Yeah, okay; what about acres of food in order to feed populations? You try that on a small plot and then extrapolate out to big farms.
"Organic" tells you to put eggshells into the hole in which you put a tomato plant (clay soil needs calcium). Around here, we can eat enough eggs (provided they don't get much much expensive -- current Avian flu anyone?) to bolster six tomato plants. Try that on an acre or acres.
That said, I don't care about Sri Lanka, Russia, Ukraine, etc., etc. I care about what's happening HERE.
HERE, our farmers can't get the fertilizer and other soil amendments in order to plant the fields that they're used to, in addition to the
government bribing them with "subsidies" to burn or plow under their crops. Even today, with projected food shortages!
