Things Sri Lanka can do:
1. eat more rice, all 1.2 mil tons of it, for the same amount of minerals (this would lead to obesity).
2. plant and eat 1 million tons of rice per year, leaving empty 1/6 of the previous fields free for other use. In those 1/6 of the fields, they can now grow carrots and mushrooms and lentils and other highly nutritious stuff. It might even leave them with extra land for football fields.
How is this an issue? I swear: sometimes people want to find a negative even in the most positive outcomes.