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No, the primary cause of the shortage is that 70+% of the potato supply comes from one specific region of Japan, and that that region has had a very bad Typhoon
by glandium 10y ago
No, the primary cause of the shortage is that 70+% of the potato supply comes from one specific region of Japan, and that that region has had a very bad Typhoon which caused bad crops. IOW, the primary cause of the shortage was a (almost) SPOF in the supply chain.
- YokoZar 10y agoAnd why is there a single point of failure? Because there is a hard cap on imports. No cap -> no shortage, just as much as no typhoon -> no shortage.
- glandium 10y ago> And why is there a single point of failure? Because there is a hard cap on imports. You don't need to import to avoid the single point of failure. You just need to not have _one_ region where most of your production is.