100,000 families landless in Mahaweli zones of Sri Lanka, says officials

(February 07, 2011) Sri Lanka government says that the farmers of the Mahaweli development areas are facing a severe shortage of land.

The Director General of the Mahaweli Authority D.M.C. Disanayaka said to Sinhala website Ethalaya that currently around 100,000 families of the Mahaweli zones are landless.

It is important the government assumed this in a time it is trying to grant thousands of acres of land for multi national companies to grow cash crops.

Recently, the government called the big businessmen to express interest to acquire state land for mass scale farming.

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