Govi Pasala exchanging knowledge

Navaratne Bandara, Mahaweli systems corr.

Agriculturists and farmers who wish to do experiments in ‘Organic farming’ can now exchange knowledge with the ‘Govi Pasala’ (school for farmers) at Palugasveva, Eppaavala.

A group of old campaigners for ‘Organic Farming’ are there to welcome those who are trying to gain a better knowledge of traditional methods of agriculture.

The ‘Palugasveva Govi Pasala’ which is run by a volunteer methodical activists’ committee for appropriate agricultural technologies for Sri Lanka has a good collection of data and information in the field of organic farming.

The founders of the ‘Govi Pasala’ had the intelligence to turn to organic farming to protect the country’s soil and insects useful to crop farming from the artificial fertilizers, which also swallowed the country’s foreign money in bulk annually at a time when most of those who now advocate an agricultural policy giving a weight to organic farming too were looking down on traditional farming methods based on organic farming.