Posted on July 5th, 2021
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA Courtesy The Island
Perhaps, I should have
titled this US Ambassador, please mind your business” as she seems to be the
busybody, doing her utmost to interfere in the internal affairs of our country;
much against the accepted international diplomatic norms. But she is not in
isolation, as there seem to be other ambassadors, too, though less repetitious
than her, who seem to be under the impression that they are viceroys rather
than ambassadors. Perhaps, it is not entirely their fault, as there are some
political parties who regularly subservient themselves, helping these
The writer has been following, with much interest, the contributions by various writers in relation to the proposal to abandon the use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides in agriculture, in Sri Lanka. This has been proposed largely with a view to saving the foreign exchange spent on imported chemicals and, hopefully, to increase the health and take-home income of farmers, as well. The recent article by A. Hettiarachchi in
The Island of 29 June 2021 noted some of the considerations which need to be taken into account.
The purpose of the present note, however, lies elsewhere. When the writer was the President of the Sri Lanka Bee Farmers’ Association (SLBFA), he was intrigued to learn that bees’ honey is imported from India, to meet the requirements for the preparations of local ayurvedic physicians. This was in addition to the bees’ honey imported from Australia and other countries for sale in supermarkets and other urban outlets. There is absolutely no reason for this
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