Sky’s Paul Kelso reports from Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo where an economic and financial crisis is impacting rice production 🌾 Read more:
The soil in each paddy has to be turned twice before planting, a job that would take a matter of hours with a tractor but takes two days for each turn when dug by hand. That's before planting the seedlings, also by hand, a task that takes 10 men a full day.
"After the fertiliser ban we were getting only 25% of the yield," Ravindra says."We just can't get the same yield with organic fertiliser, and our labour costs more than our harvest will earn, so there is no profit." With lower yields, the price in shops and markets has tripled and Sri Lanka is more reliant on imports it can barely afford, and not just of rice.One dead as police open fire on protesters demonstrating against fuel price rises
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