Organic Farming In Sri Lanka – Ideology Of Hitler & Sri Lankan Agri “Cults”

By Hiran B. Jayasundara –JULY 1, 2021

Consumers buy vegetables at rate of Rs. 100 where farmgate price or farmers cost and profit is around Rs. 25. This is almost 300 percent increase over farm prices when it reaches the market. As a result of this unattractive market profit margin, secondary income farmers are abandoning agriculture, with the result being a decline in national agricultural production over the decades and a situation where very fertile lands are not being used for agriculture. Final result would be Sri Lanka does not see the huge growth in the agricultural sector as seen in all other countries in Asia, where Agriculture sector GDP growth is almost stagnated.

Also, the post-harvest damage to vegetables and fruits in Sri Lanka alone is estimated at 30-40 percent annually, causing an estimated loss of 30 billion rupees to the national economy. That amount is about 50 percent of the annual cost of importing fertilizer to Sri Lanka. Also, Sri Lanka suffers an economic loss of Rs. 3.7 billion annually due to direct and indirect health risks associated with floods and droughts affecting the farming community in the face of climate change. Also, the economic loss due to climate change in coconut cultivation alone is estimated at Rs. 4.7 billion1. Real economic cost of the total agricultural sector due to climate hazards might be over Rs. 50 billion.The World Food and Health Organization has ranked Sri Lanka as the 4th country with the highest rate of deforestation, with a forest cover of 16.5 percent in 2019 and 29.7 percent in 2017. With the loss of wildlife habitat associated with deforestation, a wild elephant in Sri Lanka was killed every day in 20192 and every human life was lost by human-elephant conflict every three days. Due to wildlife problems, farmers in the upcountry areas of Sri Lanka have stopped their production. Economic loss of the nation due to this poor resource management systems would be billions of rupees although the value of losing human and biodiversity loss cannot be measured in simple economic terms.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, an estimated 5-7 million hectares of Sri Lanka’s agricultural land fall into the category of unproductive land annually due to land degradation3, and desertification is a major crisis for the future of Sri Lanka. In calculating all these losses and economic disadvantages, the loss in the agricultural sector in Sri Lanka could be two to three times the GDP component of agricultural production. God does not need to solve these problems. What is needed is design and purpose. Despite this possibility, the present government of Sri Lanka has made the supply of chemical fertilizers to farmers its most serious problem and a series of dangerous myths imagined by the government.

Due to the ban on fertilizers, the farming community in Sri Lanka is currently facing a severe economic risk and as a country, Sri Lanka is on the verge of a severe food crisis and food insecurity. To cover up the serious food crisis that could ensue, pro-government media and politicians are now showing a series of fantasy and mythical film series called “Organic Farming” for the urban population. The purpose of this article is to expose to the people of Sri Lanka this sudden series of organic stories and the fascist ideologies associated with it for decades.

As Hitler is the ideal political figure of some clergymen in Sri Lanka as well as many of the middle class, they too can take some pleasure in the fascism faced by Sri Lankan agriculture. Although farmers and agronomists in this country are deeply appalled by the ban on chemical fertilizers, the agri-cultists of Colombo and the metropolitan areas, Natha and Rawana generation, who know nothing about agriculture, are overjoyed at the decision. This is because these cults are living by selling the ignorance of the people of the country on the gaps between science and idiocy.

Although organic philosophers in Sri Lanka have put forward a wide range of views on “organic farming”, according to Nature Magazine, the European Union sees organic farming as an ideology that uses the least of science and is largely irrational4. The report also points out that such methods are not suitable for tackling global issues such as climate change and population growth, which are currently prevalent in countries such as Sri Lanka. What is needed further is agricultural pragmatism and flexibility, not ideology.

According to the journals such as Nature5 and Newsweek, organic farming increases farmland as a result of low yields from organic farming, leading to deforestation. In further, organic farming is leading to the extinction of rare species on a large scale due to the loss of wildlife habitats in Sri Lanka as well. According to the reports, organic farming also contributes to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The business of truly organic food is a deceptive, expensive scam – Newsweek points out6.

Organic food promoters in Sri Lanka as well as around the world boast that organic food is more nutritious than traditional food and improves human health. But an experimental comparison of organically grown and conventionally grown foods shows that the quality of the food does not affect the product mass7. Furthermore, organic growers radically promote that organic foods have more flavorful properties or enhanced nutritional value. But researchers have shown that organic products have a relatively low nitrate and protein content. Accordingly, the desired nutritional properties of organic foods are reduced and there is no universal power to cure specific diseases8.

Conventional agriculture or industrial agriculture produces more fruits and vegetables annually, which has now reduced the global cancer rate by 15 percent and stomach cancer by 50-60 percent9. However, world scientific researchers fear that organic food products may increase the risk of cancer due to increased mycotoxin fungal infections5.

Furthermore, in a research paper quoted by the New York Times10, the incorrect implementation of organic farming policies as a result of deforestation and habitat fragmentation has increased the risk of disease transmission from animals to humans. In particular, they observe that this may increase the risk of the rapid spread of destructive viruses, such as corona, to humans. Scientists say the expansion of organic farming is likely to lead to zoological epidemics11.

Organic agriculture will not only rely heavily on natural highly toxic and environmentally destructive pesticides such as copper sulfate but will also intensify the challenge of eradicating hunger worldwide by rejecting the values ​​of the Green Revolution, including artificial fertilizers and hybrid crops that have increased yields5. Through this, Sri Lankas  poverty and hunger will be dramatically increased  in near future.

According to the Annual Review of Resource Economics – Organic agriculture generates more air pollutants and environmental emissions in the production of a unit of food compared to conventional farming12. Therefore, the scientific world has further concluded that organic farming is not the global plan for sustainable agriculture.

Here, according to Linda Chulker-Scott, a professor at Washington State University, who reports to the Guardian newspaper, the global organic business is highly controversial13. It is based on science with chemistry, astrology, and homeopathy and is being questioned by the scientific community.

If so, by whom and for what purpose was organic farming attributed to poor countries like Sri Lanka?

We must first choose the true form of organic farming. Do a Google search for the term “organic farming”. You will receive at least 50 identical names. There are about 200 similar names for occultism alone. There are no such adaptations to a science subject or a clear philosophy.

Despite its various nicknames, the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner is considered the father of organic farming, called organic farming as “biodynamic farming”. He combined Anthroposophy with science and spirituality and is considered a pioneer of German ideological philosophy and theory and roots14.

Rudolph’s teachings divided all mankind according to the

ethnicity of the people as well as the racial competition made according to their body color15. Used to determine the human purity based on body color. He was classified as a human being according to karma and was called an extremist racist16. He described blacks as inferior souls and whites as intelligent people and described blacks as inferior to evolution17.

This is the Aryan concept of fascism and they are at the top of the human evolutionary hierarchy and I suggest you search the Nazi Auschwitz camp to get some idea of ​​the devastation this attitude has caused to mankind.

Steiner, who, like Hitler, believed in racial purity, said organic farming builds the relationship between soil and man through racial and occult spiritual influences18.

Thus organic farming has been mired in unscientific ideology since its inception and no scientist can confirm its scientific brilliance. Knowing this ignorance, a trade union leader in Sri Lanka said that there is no organic agriculture known to agriculturists. He is the best example of an agri-“cultist” in Sri Lanka. Here, you will raise the question of what science is. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines modern science as any system of knowledge that cares about the physical world and its phenomena and requires unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. There are no dreams and miracles in the sciences.

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