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Not to be rude but did you bother to think before writing that post? Sri Lanka is a net importer of food. It is not self sufficient. You can’t get a organic premium if you can’t feed your own people, and organic food has a well known yield reduction.

It was abundantly transparent to all commentators at the time that this was purely to try and reduce capital outflows.

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Uh, yes, my snarky friend. I didn't suggest Sri Lanka is agriculturally self-sufficient. With so little a land area to work with, that would not be possible.

It's not clear that switching to organic agriculture in any way reduces capital outflows. Do you mean reducing import costs by not having to import chemical fertilizer? If that were the case, I think Sri Lanka would focus on boosting domestic production and finding cheaper suppliers.

What if you sell the organic produce and use the money to buy beer non/organic imported food?

It might be more profitable in the long term, but a hard cutover sure isn’t.

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