Kuubassa itsessään siihen ei enää paljon uskota, mutta myytti, legenda elää:
Claim: Cuba Shows We can Grow Food Without FertiliserAccording to Carbon Brief, the success of organic farming in Cuba and the USA demonstrates the Sri Lankan failure was caused by incompetence, not by a lack of agricultural chemicals.
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The claim that Cuba is an organic agricultural miracle in my opinion is a dangerous fiction. Even The Guardian admits Cuba uses lots of imported agricultural chemicals.
Cuba has never been able to feed itself. It currently imports 60-80% of the food it consumes, at a cost of about $2bn a year. Two-thirds of its corn is imported and a similar amount of its rice, the latter mainly from Vietnam and Brazil. At markets around the country, sacks of rice can be seen piled to the rafters. Cubans love bread, but wheat doesn’t grow well in the tropical climate, so that has to be imported as well — mostly from the United States, which, in an exception to the Cold War-era trade embargo, sells food to Cuba for cash.
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“It’s sad that the immense majority of farmers in Cuba still use pesticides and chemical fertilisers. They’re poison, and they enter our food,” says Pimentel, who raises 45 different crops on four hectares in an isolated valley in western Cuba. He’s proud of the fact he never uses chemicals of any kind. Yet he’s not sure his farm could ever gain certification as organic. The land, in Pinar del Río province, was once planted with tobacco, which has a reputation for high reliance on pesticides. Chemical residues from other crops wash in from neighbouring farms with the rain.
(lihav. HJ, siis tehoviljelyn
vastustajan huomio!)
More confirmation the claim Cuba is an organic farming success story is nonsense. Cuba has just had their worst sugar harvest in over a century. “… The report, which cited a spokesman for Azcuba, the state-run sugar company, blamed the shortfall primarily on a lack of inputs, including oxygen for sugar production, fertilizers, pesticides, fuel and spare parts for plant machinery. … The report said only 37% of the necessary herbicides and pesticides were available for use this season. …”
USA:n julistamasta Kuuban kauppasaarrosta (CBS 25.01.22):
U.S. Food Exports To Cuba Have Increased By 144 Percent In Last YearMIAMI (CBSMiami) - Cuba imports roughly 80 percent of the food it needs for the island's 11 million people.
A healthy portion of that food comes from the United States.
But wait a minute, you say, what happened to the Cuban embargo?
"The U.S. is the largest supplier of food to Cuba," Dr. Carlos Eire.
A Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University and a Cuba expert, Eire is also the author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana" and "Learning to Die in Miami."
Tuontia tarvitaan vielä, ja paljon, koska konventionaalinenkaan viljely ei ole onnistunut toivotusti. Vaikka yritystä on, jopa GM-viljelyssä. Katso juuri edellinen puheenvuoro.
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Nyt myyttiä Kuuban luomuviljelyn menestyksestä tarvitaankin selittämään Sri Lankan
ilmeinen epäonnistuminen. Sinänsä hyvä idea muka vain toteutettiin jotenkin väärin. "Jätkät pilas."
