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Daily Financial Times
Daily Financial Times
It is a shame, and I feel incredibly sorry for the 22 million consumers of Sri Lanka, including our farming community and myself, for not being able to convince or force the ignorant policymakers in this country to make rational decisions on agriculture at the correct time. We are heading towards the most disastrous scenario that the country’s agriculture has ever experienced (leaving the other economic sectors out for a moment), at least since gaining independence in 1948. Some academia, scientists, social activists, and farmers/practitioners in Sri Lanka voiced serious concern since they hea…