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Flooding away from the fields

China Daily | Updated: 2017-11-03 07:52

Drought forces Sri Lankan farmers to move to cities in search of work

COLOMBO - When Siri Hettige, a sociology professor at Colombo University, conducts surveys of young people across Sri Lanka, he never fails to ask one key question: Does anybody want to become a farmer?

No, has been the overwhelmingly emphatic answer, he said.

Flooding away from the fields

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