キャメロン・ラッセルのインスタグラム(cameronrussell) - 4月4日 10時55分
When we meet, Mahendra Peiris is dressed head-to-toe in purple. He is the sustainable farmer we came to profile and he is spectacular.
He and his wife have a boundless curiosity for living things. In a corner of the garage, he shows us a plant decorated with string and small plastic bags. “A hybrid between a weed and mango,” Mahendra explains, “So far it’s thriving. Six months old. And it needs almost no water. I saw these weeds everywhere, they are very resilient, so I am trying to make it do something useful.”
He and the @rainforestalliance are teaching a sustainable practice he’s developed called “weed management.” Instead of using dangerous chemicals and herbicides (that give farm workers and locals cancer, contaminate water supply, and threaten biodiversity), they let good weeds thrive, which adds nitrogen back into the soil (and has increased Mahendra’s crop by 20%!).
His sustainable innovations are important not just because they protect local people and raise their wages, but also because sustainable agriculture is the best way to protect the rain forest, and the rain forest is the best defense we have against climate change (which protects all of us). #MyForestStory #RainforestAlliance #SriLanka #PushForProgress
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