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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17.01.24 – Sri Lanka – Navdanya International This post is also available in: German Reiserntemaschine in der Mitte eines Reisfeldes, Sri Lanka (Bild von Theja D Senanayake / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed) Organic Agriculture was not the Cause of Sri Lanka’s Economic Chaos.The ban on chemical fertilizers and agrochemicals was not to turn Sri Lanka
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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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කාබනික හා පාරිසරික වගාව වෙනුවෙන් LOAM විසින් ආරම්භ කළ පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ ප්‍රථම කණ්ඩායම පුහුණු කිරීම පසුගිය 2023 ඔක්තෝබර් 31 වනදා සාර්ථකව සිදු කිරීමට හැකි විය. ඒ, මත්තේගොඩ පිහිටි අක්කර 04ක භූමියක පැතිරී ඇති LOAM හි වගා ආදර්ශක භූමිය තුළයි. එම සමාරම්භක වැඩසටහන සඳහා Lanka Organic Agriculture Movement (LOAM) සභාපති තිලක් කාරියවසම් මහතා, අධ්‍යක්ෂ අජන්ත පළිහවඩන
ලංකා කාබනික කෘෂිකර්ම ව්‍යාපාරයේ පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානය ප්‍රජාව වෙත විවෘත කිරීම Read More »
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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An open public discussion titled “Current Food Crisis and Regenerative Agriculture as a Solution” was successfully held at the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agricultural Research Institute (HARTI) on the 5th of October. Dr. Ranil Senanayake (Chairman of Earth Restoration, Founder of Analog Forestry) and Dr. Andre Liu (D.Sc., BA Com., Grad Dip Ed. International Director, Regeneration International
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