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EASTERN PROVINCE, SRI LANKA, 2009-07-27
Traditional rice paddy farmers like P.G. Dayananda are embracing modern agricultural practices and improving their incomes by expanding to a cash crop with high demand: pickles.
USAID, in partnership with the Sri Lankan agricultural manufacturer Hayleys Group, is helping Tamil, Muslim, and Sinhalese rice farmers to increase their incomes and communities to begin working together after years of conflict.
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| The farmers selected to participate in the pilot project represent all major ethnic communities of the East—Sinhalese, Tamils, and Muslims. |
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Farmers in the eastern districts of Ampara and Moneragala have started to grow small cucumbers that are pickled in brine to become gherkins for the export market.
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