Kilinochchi farmers dread first harvest after Sri Lanka’s fertilizer ban
The Hindu
Govt.’s ‘organic only’ policy since May has drawn flak from farmers and experts
For Muthu Sivamohan, a farmer leader in Sri Lanka’s northern Kilinochchi district, the uncertainty looming over his paddy yield, after the , is only comparable to “two other periods of crisis”.
“The first was when Prime Minister Sirimavo [Bandaranaike] introduced import substitution in the 1970s,” said the 63-year-old farmer. He vividly recalled the “severe food shortage” during the period, with long queues outside shops as people waited for hours to buy a loaf of bread. “There was hunger all around. We survived on king coconut and manioc mostly.”
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