Comments on: The National Soil Question: Part 1 https://groundviews.org/2012/07/21/the-national-soil-question-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-national-soil-question-part-1 Journalism for Citizens Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:21:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Lankan Thinker https://groundviews.org/2012/07/21/the-national-soil-question-part-1/#comment-47016 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:21:39 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=9783#comment-47016 This is certainly an important topic and I thank Ranil Senanayake for continuing to write about the fundamental changes Sri Lankans need to make regarding the management of the country’s natural resources. Whenever I watch a political debate it is somewhat irksome to continually hear government politicians repeatedly praising the huge amount of money given for chemical fertiliser subsidies. It never occurs to them that giving Rs. 50bn each year multinational fertiliser companies and having our farmers poison the land might be contradictory to their claims of ‘love of the country’ and preventing the wealth of the country being given to foreigners which are proclaimed next breath.

That said, I am not an ecologist or argriculture expert so am not sure if we can maintain agricultural production at levels high enough for adequate food security using alternative methods. Hopefully this is something that Dr. Senanayake will address this issue in Part 2 of this article.

]]> By: ordinary lankan https://groundviews.org/2012/07/21/the-national-soil-question-part-1/#comment-47013 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:09:40 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=9783#comment-47013 Thank you! That is all I can say.

When there are thousands who will take up cudgels when a high public official utters some dirty words to a journalist there are precious few who will engage with more far reaching structural topics like this.

I hope I will be proved wrong. Let us see how many will engage with this post……

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