The Insurrection in Trilanka

President rlancon promised in his two thousand 19 election campaign to transition the country's farmers to organic agriculture over a period of ten years. He made good on that promise last april, imposing a nation wide band on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. The result was brutal and swift: domestic rice production fell 20 % in just the first six months. Schulank has been forced to import 450 million dollars worth of rice, even as domestic prices for the staple of the national diet surged by 50%. It also devastated the nation's tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.