All We Need Is the Air That We Breathe

by |07 September 202117 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in GroundViews Today is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies “Tiny, invisible particles of pollution penetrate deep into our lungs, bloodstream and bodies. These pollutants are responsible for about one-third of deaths from stroke, chronic respiratory...

How Sri Lanka’s Overnight Flip to Total Organic Farming has led to an Economic Disaster

by |06 September 202114 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on The Print President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to impose an economic emergency on 31 August to contain soaring food inflation, and currency devaluation and forex reserves crisis. Sri Lanka has been hit by a serious economic emergency even...

How Sri Lanka’s Overnight Flip to Total Organic Farming Has Led to an Economic Disaster

by |06 September 202117 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Print New Delhi: Sri Lanka has been hit by a serious economic emergency even as it struggles to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Dwindling foreign exchange reserves, a sinking currency and soaring food inflation have come together to create...

Quantifying COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo

by |06 September 202101 October 2021|Interviews & Articles

Published in the Daily Mirror Among the many tragic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been some positive offshoots as well. One of them is the improvement of Colombo’s air quality as a result of restricted movement to prevent...

Good Food for the Rich

by |05 September 202117 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Sunday Times As Sri Lanka banned the usage and import of chemical fertiliser for agriculture production – for both domestic agriculture and plantation agriculture -, I too received many requests from some of my regular readers to...

Farmers for a Phased Out Transition From Chemical to Organic Fertilizer; Supplemented With Advice

by |31 August 202105 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on The Island The farming community of Sri Lankan doesn’t want a haphazard rush towards full-scale organic fertilizer use. Instead, they prefer a properly phased out process supplemented with adequate advice, a new survey has revealed, Executive Director of...

Threat on Food Security ‘Significant’ and could be ‘Imminent’: Survey

by |29 August 202105 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on The Island Over 90% of commercial farmers involved in a survey conducted among 1,042 farmers, in all the nine provinces, of the country say they currently use chemical fertiliser, and almost all of them expect reduction in their...

Most Farmers Support Move Towards Organic Farming – Survey

by |29 August 202105 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on Sunday Observer Almost two-thirds of the farmers are supportive of the Government’s vision to move Sri Lanka into organic agriculture, according to a survey on the ban on the import of chemical fertiliser conducted by Verité Research recently....

Farmers Foresee Drop in Harvest Due to Govt.’s Rush to Embrace Organic Fertilizer

by |27 August 202105 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on Daily Mirror 94% of paddy farmers dependent on chemical fertilizers Majority of farmers supportive of govt.’s policy of switching to organic farming practices But urge for realistic timeframe to implement the turn Cite lack of knowledge on organic...

Sri Lanka Farmers Expect Crop Drop From Fertilizer Ban, Want Time for Organic Move: Study

by |27 August 202106 October 2021|Verité in the News

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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