Food crisis looms in Sri Lanka as fertiliser shortage stunts rice crop

Some critics trace Sri Lanka's unfolding food catastrophe to former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's decision in April last year to ban chemical fertilisers overnight, part of a drive to make the country's produce more organic.

The lack of hard currency at a time of spiralling prices sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine also squeezed imports of essentials including fuel, cooking gas, medicines and food.The resulting shortages led to an outburst of public anger against the government and once-powerful president, and sometimes violent mass protests eventually forced Mr Rajapaksa to flee the country and quit the presidency.

To farm 30 hectares of land, Chinnathambi Lankeshwaran says he would typically spend about 175,000 Sri Lankan rupees per hectare and recover about 100 bags of rice from each of those hectares. A worker moves bags of urea fertiliser supplied through a credit line from India inside a warehouse in Kilinochchi.

Science, & hundreds of years of peoples doing this has an answer...

Headline should be: “ABC Deflects from LNP Clusterfugg That is Scott Morrison.”

ABC/ALP drongos are taking us up the same road. Take close notice of what happened to their leader.

Paving the way to justify boatloads of human trafficker cargo.

Green ideologies fully realised

Growth in consumption and population should stop. We live in a finite environment.

There is no shortage of fertiliser, the Sri Lanka government withdrew the subsidy for fertiliser.

The UN should be charged with crimes against humanity for promoting using less/no fertilisers. And any government or media (ie the ABC) who promotes this anti-human agenda

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