| dc.description.abstract | The agriculture around the world is still heavily associated with chemical fertilisers, pesticides etc. and being
inorganic. Although, a positive trend has been developing for organic agriculture around the world due to the
benefits it delivers. Since the comparative studies related to organic agriculture on China and Sri Lanka are hardly
found, the objectives of the study to perform a comparative analysis between China and Sri Lanka. Further, study
examines benefits and challenges of both contexts. The research applies qualitative purposive sampling method and
collect data using interview technique. Further study expects to use secondary data sources to achieve its objectives.
The primary data is analysed using the thematic analysis. Moreover, the study focuses to examine the secondary
sources related to China and Sri Lanka. The results of the study revealed that, although the China has remarkable
progress in organic agriculture, there are deficiencies such excessive supply of organic products, disparities in
organic production and consumption, Inadequacy of trust of consumers on organic foods, low educational status of
organic farmers and deficiencies in technology used for organic agriculture and expensiveness in organic products
compared with inorganic resulted in low demand. Also, results of the study further revealed that, the rapid
transformation from inorganic agriculture to organic committed by the government of Sri Lanka created certain
issues in the country resulting a threat to the food security of the country. Further, there are many deficiencies noted
in the process such lack of proper mechanism to supply organic inputs to bridge the country’s requirement, no
proper mechanism in place to monitor the organic agriculture process, difficulties in obtaining of organic
certification, lack of local certification bodies, deficiencies in alternatives to replace chemical inputs such
pesticides, weedicides etc., lack of government support to farmers to bear the income loss incurring due to the loss
of yield during the transition period etc. Further, results of the study highlight the comparative differences between
two countries. Moreover, challenges, benefits, strengths, weaknesses, and threats in the organic agriculture of these
countries are objectively evaluated. | en_US |
