Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
The drastic move to organic farming is puzzling.<p>Any level headed <i>person</i>, forget a <i>politician</i>, would want to experiment first, see the results, gauge and then expand selectively. That is <i>common sense</i>.<p>I guess when you are a dictator <i>ish</i> government and you rule the country with an iron first, the institutions of the state stop being anything and simply become rubber stamps.<p>This also underlines the importance of self sufficiency in <i>necessities</i>. A country ought to feed its people, provide basic services like power and medical facilities <i>on its own</i>, without depending on imports.