Is Only The Organic Farming is Reponsible for Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka ?
After Sikkim, Lakshadweep is India's only such Union Territory that announced itself as fully organic. On the 2nd of October 2021 Shri Rajnath Singh , Union Defence minister declared the entire Union Territory of Lakshadweep as a 'Fully Organic Territory' . Along with that on the 29th of April 2021, a big agriculture policy shift happened in Sri Lanka. Gotabaya Rajapaksa the president of Sri Lanka announced that Sri Lanka will turn into the first organic-only economy in the world. With a stroke of a pen, the government wants to make the island nation of nearly a 22million people and 1.8 million farming families into a fully organic food-producing country. As such government of Shri Lanka banned chemical-based farming throughout the country. The import of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and weedicides was also prohibited by the government. After a few months of this decision farming output has fallen without the use of fertilizers, food prices have shot through the roof,