“All those heroin growing countries could be growing food to feed the people who live there. Drugs are a huge blot on the world.”
That, or growing stuff like Artemesia or goji berries to export and then using the money to buy food.
Importing food is never as good as growing for the citizens’ own use, and then extra stuff for export. Just the most sane way. BTW I looked up artemesia a bit and need to do more, but there are quite a few varieties and not all the same. Wormwood is one variety and it is pretty intense, not for long term use, and mainly for getting rid of parasites. I wonder if that is the one for covid. Since Ivermectin works for covid and is a parasiticide, may be.