Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Monday, January 7, 2013

Sri Lanka's flooded farms inundated with debt 

 

Farming families face mounting economic problems after severe weather devastated land and crop cycles.

  Farmers in Sri Lanka are facing mounting debts after severe weather destroyed their crops.

Months of drought were followed by severe flooding which deluged their land, and the changing weather patterns have caused havoc with the crop cycles.
Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.