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Sri Lanka Farmers Expect Crop Drop From Fertilizer Ban, Want Time for Organic Move: Study
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Published on EconomyNext Sri Lanka’s farmers are expecting crop losses after a chemical fertilizer ban and want more time to learn about organic alternatives and their use, but most thought it was a good idea to drop chemicals, a study...
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Realistic or just Rhetoric? The Ban on Chemical Fertilizer
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Published on Groundviews  In early 2021, a survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. Of...
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Crucial Farmer Opinion on Synthetic Fertilizer Ban Warns of 50 percent Reduction in Harvest
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Published on CounterPoint  More than three quarters of farmers who took part in a country wide telephone survey last month said they currently use synthetic fertilizer to cultivate.  Their prediction that their harvest will reduce by almost half if they...
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Farmers Against Haphazard Rush to Switch to Organic Fertiliser
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Published on DailyFT First-of-its-kind survey by Verité Research reveals pulse of farmers on fertiliser issue Farmers supportive of Govt. vision to move to organic agriculture, but almost 80% feel shift would require more than a year  Urge properly phased-out process...
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Verité Research releases results of island-wide farmers’ survey on fertiliser ban
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On April 22, 2021, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced a ban on the import of chemical fertiliser in Sri Lanka. Verité Research conducted a “Farmers’ Pulse” telephone survey to elicit the views of farmers, on this policy and its expected impact....
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