Is Sri Lanka government dumping tomatoes because it is unable to help local farmers sell their produce?
An image of a truck emptying out tomatoes onto a field is being shared thousands of times on Facebook with claims that it shows the inability of Sri Lankan government to help farmers in selling their produce amidst the lockdown. The post is being shared in the Sinhalese language and the image is as follows:
The caption in Sinhalese translates into: “Inability of rulers. Only thefters have forgotten the innocent farmers.”
Truth
The above image when run through a Google reverse image search lead to an article published by The Guardian on October 2017. The article is titled, “Almost 90% of edible tomatoes thrown away based on appearance – research. Up to 86.7% of harvest rejected, environmental scientist says – underlining Australia’s costly food waste culture.”
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