Text and pix by: PRIYAN DE SILVA | Sunday Observer

Text and pix by: PRIYAN DE SILVA

Of oxen caravans and cultivator woes... Toiling in the Lamasooriya Valley
“Unlike cultivators in other areas we have to pay an additional one tenth share of our harvest to the ox caravans nsport our produce up to the road, ” lamented 30-year-old Kumudini Nirosha while winnowing the last half bushel of this season’s paddy harvest from the two acre plot in the Lamasooriya Valley that they had cultivated on lease. Nirosha’s family is one of the...
4 November, 2018
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