Ukraine Grain Export

The bbc news announced that grain exports are once again able to leave ukraine . They also said ukraine was now the bread basket of the world . What a sad situation . I remember when Africa in the 60s and 70s was considered the bread basket of the world , before it became suddenly politically correct to hand it back to black governments to abuse and turn into a continent starving for lack of farm management . I wonder if they will admit they well and truly shot themselves in the feet and did not do african countries any favours . Now the poor african is starving to death and being abused and neglected by their own greedy and corrupt governments . Well done world governments I wonder how history will see it , and were supposed to believe our governments know what their doing little proof of that . Maybe the should start manufacturing Noddy Badges for all the idiotic world governments and their politically correct idiocy .

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carpediem · 61-69, M

Sri Lanka is a good example. On an island where 15 million out of its 22 million people rely on farming, over 90 percent of them had used chemical fertilizer.

To prevent the drain of foreign exchange reserves, all fertilizer imports were completely banned. Sri Lanka was declared a 100% organic farming nation. This policy, which was withdrawn in November 2021, led to a drastic fall in agricultural production and more imports became necessary.

But foreign exchange reserves remained under strain. A fall in the productivity of tea and rubber due to the ban on fertilizer also led to lower export incomes. Due to lower export incomes, there was less money available to import food and food shortages arose.

The unintended consequences of "going green".