Right now however, I have no such convictions and I feel that input based farming methods, and organic farming can both be appropriate depending on a number of variables that determine situational suitablitity. It changes place to place; it changes time to time; person to person; market to market; and it is dependent on long term feasaiblity versus short term availability of inputs and economic incentives.
I just don't know. I wish I did. This post was inspired by mentally sythisizing the post I made about UN research on the benefits of organic farming, and this Reuters article about robust Rwandan economic expansion on the back of a 'green revolution aproach' to its all important agricultural sector. See below:
Favourable weather and a "green revolution" in farming practices helped the sector grow 15 percent last year, up from 0.7 percent in 2007, according to a central bank report seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The government has been helping the agricultural sector by giving out new fertilisers and seeds, while consolidating plots to make the use of the country's fertile land more intensive.
Kanimba said the global slowdown may hit export earnings in 2009, after huge increases last year. In 2008, tea earnings rose 26.9 percent, coffee climbed 32 percent, minerals were up 34.8 percent and tourism earnings leapt 55.1 percent.
"They will continue to grow, perhaps not at the same speed like last year, but I don't expect a very big recession in these industries," the central bank governor said.
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