SRI LANKA: Displaced community unlearns old farming methods (AlertNet)
Yahoo October 10th, 2008Source: IRIN Hundreds of families uprooted from villages in Sri Lanka’s northwestern Kurunegala District are having to learn new ways of growing rice in the salty soils of their new homes in Puttalam District. Moved to make way for an irrigation project near the Deduru Oya river, they were relocated to Nelumwewa, where observers say higher rates of evaporation are increasing the land’s …
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