This study based on literature survey, aims to find (valid) reasons for the negative consequences of the agrochemical ban in Sri Lanka. Intensive farming is one of the major environmental problems. To surmount the negative consequences of the agrochemicals, sustainable solutions such as agrochemical ban could be implemented. Yet, sustainable solutions are relatively expensive due to their high energy requirements. Thus, even affluent nations hardly go for such decisions. In contrast, regenerative solutions are wise, adaptable, high resilient, and relatively cheaper. A study claims that if Sri Lanka could have implemented regenerative methods such as holistic farm management and agroforestry without banning agrochemicals (a sustainable solution), in May 2021, contribution to the economic crisis of 2022 could have been avoided because, as an agriculture nation, its economy considerably depends on agriculture exports such as tea and rubber. The declined yield due to shifting to organic farming resulted into an inflation, which made the country unaffordable to the importation of fuel, medicines, food items, and other essential items, which subsequently ended up in a catastrophic public unrest and political transformation. However, restorative solutions are a step ahead of sustainable solutions, where more positive changes occur in nature under human maintenance, e.g., introducing ducks (as practiced in Thailand) and fishes and crabs (as practiced in China) into the fields as biological control agents, using natural Neem-based pesticides and using seaweeds as the organic replacement for the inorganic fertilizer. Reconciliatory solutions are cultural practices that bring positive changes to the nature, the main difference between restorative and reconciliatory solution is, in reconciliatory solution human being is considered as equal component within nature (as co-participant and co-creator with nature), but, in the restorative systems humans are like managers of the system (not co-participants), who monitor and handle the system. For instance, forest restoration is a restorative system that requires frequent maintenance and monitoring such as nurturing the new saplings (e.g. fencing the saplings), and this administrative role of humans is replaced by co-participation along with nature in the reconciliatory model. To further illustrate, carbon farming, biological nitrogen fixing (e.g., Azolla sp.) and bioremediation via floating wetlands could provide restorative solutions for the agrochemical pollution while traditional practices such as introducing ducks, fishes and crabs into the field as biological pest control agents, using sea weed mulching as an alternative for chemical fertilizers and using Neem based pesticides as an alternative for chemical pesticides give reconciliatory solutions to the crisis, humans are equal participants within the system.
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