Dr Sudath Gunasekara, retired Ministry Secretary (SLAS)
Stan Cox writing to the Sri Lanka Guardian on the 14th of July 2008, under the caption ‘Fixing a Broken Agriculture’ has made a stunning revelation on the present state of American Agriculture. While doing so he has also warned the entire world on the ecological destruction in progress all around that arises out of ‘the human economy’s unvarying tendency to over produce what is profitable while at the same time under produce what is needed’. He also goes on to say that there is no better example of that than American agriculture, quoting his latest work Broken Agriculture 2008. For bringing agriculture, what he calls ‘into line with ecological reality’ he presents two prescriptions, namely a short term and long term one. The first he says includes some efforts that can be started today that will help to get humanity through mid-century and the second, (which also must be accelerated and soon- in his own words)’will take longer to complete but will be necessary to sustain agriculture to the end of the century and beyond’
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