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Despondent farmers let their drought-hit fields go to the elephants
View(s):Farmers from Mahakabukkadawala Mohoriya village, in Puttalam district say they have no option but to give up around 300 acres of paddyland they had safeguarded from wild elephants against all odds, as the crops are destroyed due to lack of water.
They lamented that the Mohoriya tank at the end of their paddy lands has dried up completely due to the drought. With no water for their paddylands the farmers have lost the will to protect their whithering paddylands from elephants.
Already over 1000 acres of paddylands in Puttalam have been destroyed due to the drought.
The despondent farmers of Mohoriya say they face many hardships as they are unable to make any money to pay back the loans they took to carry out their farming activities.
Mohoriya farmers association secretary, B.M Nihal Chandrasiri said the drought struck soon after they had cultivated their land that they had safeguarded from elephants for the past three months.
” Now the tank has completely dried out and we have no more water. We are helpless,” he said pointing out that they might as well allow the elephants to feed on the whithered crops.
Pix and text by Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe
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