report in ECONOMYNEXT, January 24, 2023 6:50 am– Sri Lanka’s tea output fell to a 26 year low of 251.5 million kilograms as the urban intelligentsia tried to create an interventionist state and banned chemical fertilizer. Chemical fertilizer was banned on the advice of the Government Medical Officers Association, whose boss said ancient Sri Lankans lived for over a century before chemical fertilizers were invented. Tea output fell 16 percent or 48 million kilograms in…