Why Cuba thrilled and Shri Lanka failed at organic agriculture?

History knows two examples that have passed 100% to organic farming: Sri Lanka and Cuba.

The first, under the rule of green ideology and democratic leadership, the second after the disintegration of the USSR (the only country that did not care about the US embargo on Cuba) and the brutal reduction of fossil fuels on the island.

Chronologically, the Cuban experiment succeeded, the Asian experiment was a failure.

How did the transition to organic farming in Cuba unfold?

Fidel Castro called all the specialists in permaculture and agrarian ecology worldwide, they made national programs, educated people and told them what to do.

The single party offered those who wanted 1 hectare of land, the donkeys multiplied, the mules with which the West was once conquered were brought back today.

Including the urban population; was involved in growing vegetables, Havana has come to produce more than 50% of its food needs within the walls.

The spaces between the blocks, the roundabouts, the balconies and the terraces were cultivated.

It is a success and an example for the moment when the energy we are so attached to will be little and expensive (unless we are already there).

In Sri Lanka it was shorter: yes, you are no longer allowed with chemical fertilizers, get to work organicaly! Left to their own devices, people broke their necks.

The rest is known.

Some draw the conclusion that, in the absence of terms of comparison, organic farming cannot feed people. It is superficial and false.

But the transition from agribusiness to organic is not done in the blink of an eye.

Property on small areas needs to be reinvented, which produce high yields in nutrient units, with the involvement of humans and animals.

An agriculture in which the Romanian village would play the fundamental role (Ukraininans and Rusians never ceased that).

The idea that profitability is measured in "accounting" must be abandoned (mechanized farms are profitable in accounting, but produce few nutrient per soil units relative to the area, while small farms fail the accounting test, but produce a lot of nutrient food in large varieties).

An entire modern, bankrupt and suicidal paradigm must be abandoned in favor of truly sustainable, human-oriented models and human-scale communities.

Things like that do not develop in a year and not starting from stupid prohibitions, and especially not without the involvement of the political element devoted to the people that entices experimented specialist, with or without a diploma, to train the others for some good reason.