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A comment on Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster. Parent comment
Centralization and a bureaucracy applying a decision upon a large territory is a good recipe for disaster if the decision is a bad one.
Any "overnight flip to" anything is often a bad decision.
Moreover the real cause is an economic crisis centered on a foreign exchange deficit: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2021/07/sri-lanka-manufactur...
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Centralization and a bureaucracy applying a decision upon a large territory is a good recipe for disaster if the decision is a bad one.
Any "overnight flip to" anything is often a bad decision.
Moreover the real cause is an economic crisis centered on a foreign exchange deficit: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2021/07/sri-lanka-manufactur...