The Organic Drive That Plunged Sri Lanka Into Crisis
The Sri Lanka government's draconian policy of making the country go 100 per cent organic has left a trail of destruction in the lives of two million farmers. From crops being destroyed to suffering 90 per cent losses. Realising how the policy had a catastrophic effect on farmers, the government partially lifted the ban in November last year. NDTV's Sreeja MS visits the tea estates in Amaragedere village of Bulathsinghala, a western province of Sri Lanka. One of the tea planters says life has never been the same after the government implemented the policy.
