“LOADI GROVE” Research and Training Center on Organic Farming, Ecological Farming, Regenerative Farming and Analogous Forestry was opened to the community on World Environment Day (06/05/2024). It is in “Dikhena Estate”, The Village Mawatha, Kudamadwa, Mattegoda, Polgasovita area. Indegenous leader, Vanaspathi Uruvarige Vannilatthan was the chief guest on the occasion. Along with that Mr. Amrit […]
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After the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, the two-day staff briefing workshop on the inauguration and future plans of Lanka Organic Agricultural Movement and FIAN Sri Lanka organizations was held on April 18 and 19 at LOADI Grove – Organic Agriculture / Agroecology Research and Training Center, Mattegoda. On the first day Mr. Suranjan Kodithuvakku,
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In April 2021, the government of Sri Lanka decides to become an “Organic State” overnight. The plan is not well thought out, but driven by increasing costs for agrochemicals – and it failed. Today, the organic-transition is more necessary than ever. You can now listen to the discussion between LOAM Chairman Thilak Kariyawasam and LOAM Special Project
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An awareness and practical program on the preparation of organic liquid fertilizers was held at Mattegoda Training Center on 11.02.2024. Vegetable bowls were also offered to the participants.
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Uthayam newspaper had reported on 11.02.2024 about the public protest held against the environmental damage in Mannar. Mr. Thilak Kariyawasam, Chairman of LOAM also participated in the event and gave comments. #humanrights #SandMining #StopMining #mannar #lka
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Thai Pongal Day is more of a cultural festival than a religious one, it is a cultural festival where farmers offer blessings to the nature that helped them in their work, to the animals they worked with and to the sun and cattle. From the month of Nikini, the harvested crops are put into a
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Lanka Organic Agriculture Movement president Mr. Thilak Kariyawasam attended the COP28 – UAE international conference held last November and participated in several special events. Accordingly, he participated in the following forums and expressed his views successfully. 1- Soil carbon and small holder possibilities, maximizing community driven solutions and minimizing damage 2 – People & Places:
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FSP Thematic Day focus: Regenerative Agriculture & Agroecology Session 4: People & places: agroecology and regenerative approaches from the ground up Date : 2nd of December (Today) Time: 15:30-16:30 Join us for an inspiring session as we delve into the world of regenerative agriculture with landscape leaders at the heart of transformation. Through captivating case
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Organics International in response to the statement below made by Matthias Berninger, head of public affairs and sustainability at Bayer. “Some NGOs want to introduce agroecology for Africa across the board. This is an ideologically driven demand, the result of which you can see in Sri Lanka. The high priests of agroecology from the NGO
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Agribusiness cartels and media articles stated that Sri Lanka’s economic chaos was caused by the government forcing the country to go organic. These articles’ familiar false narratives, untruths, and language style show spin doctors wrote them from a PR company employed by pesticide/big agriculture cartels. They were cut and pasted by poor-quality journalists who did
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