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@visakanv the tweet does seem to be misrepresenting a bit - there are food shortages because of the exchange rate, not because of crop failures. whether fertilisers are a sensible thing to ban the import of is a separate question.
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@visakanv my assumption was, and a quick skim of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sri_Lanka backs up... one of the fundamentals of the Sri Lankan economy was tourism, and it's basically halted due to Covid. Apparel was also badly hit early on.