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Sri Lanka drought relief measures for farming families
2014-08-01 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco-Business: Sri Lanka`s government will roll out a relief programme to help vulnerable farmers cope with the effects of a worsening drought, as part of a wider effort to protect people from the frequent extreme weather events that are threatening the country's steady economic gains. "The impact of climate change impact has become severe now,' said Punchi Banda Jayasundera, Secretary to the Treasury and the man primarily responsible for setting national economic policy, as a 10-month-old drought dents agricultural...
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