ECONOMYNEXT – Demand for vegetables in Sri Lanka has slumped in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah, a regional agricultural official told President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in a top agricultural district in the Indian Ocean island. Vegetable prices soared in the first day after the cyclone ended, as many roads were still impassable but then collapsed. The Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture in charge of the Nuwara Eliya District, in the hill country, told President Dissanayake that 1,421 hectares of vegetables were damaged by floods. The target for the current season was 8,085 hectares but vegetables were grown…
Demand for vegetables in Sri Lanka slump in Cyclone Ditwah aftermath
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