Agriculture abroad: Sri Lanka - a laboratory

Abstract

In Sri Lanka for the past 2000 years farmers have worked the land to provide food for their families, sometimes even enough to store away for the bad year. But times have changed. In the past 100 years most of the best land has gone to cash crop plantations producing valuable exports such as tea, rubber and coconut. Sri Lanka's population has grown too and so the land can no longer provide enough food to meet the people's needs.