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Is Only The Organic Farming is Reponsible for Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka ?

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 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,

Why Export of Wheat got Banned by the Indian Government?

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Everyone is aware of the war between Ukraine and Russia. This war is the main subject of discussion for the people as it creates excellent trouble throughout the world. As a matter of fact, both Ukraine and Russia are the major wheat-exporting countries in the world. These countries contribute about 30% of total wheat exports in the world combinedly. As of now, China is the largest producer of wheat in the world and India is the second-largest wheat-producing country in the world.  Due to this war between Russia and Ukraine, the infrastructures of both countries are getting damaged. People of these countries are struggling and are in trouble with food and other aspects. Russia is dependent on the sea route and Ukraine is dependent on the rail route for its export activities, the black sea ( the main export sea route of Russia) has now become a battle sea during this war which is why the export of this country is almost zero for now.  Now, India is having a very good opportunity to expo