NEW DELHI—Sri Lankan paddy fields this season became the plot
for a geopolitical soft war between India and China as the island nation
found its Chinese fertilizer samples highly contaminated and hastily requested India import a replacement. Rice is Sri Lanka’s staple food and is the second-largest crop
in the country after tea. The country has also recently banned chemical
fertilizers, aiming to become the world’s first 100 percent organic
food producer. This turn to organic farming has been a topic of debate in the
country’s media and politics. It has also brought Sri Lanka into an
unexpected fiasco with China, which is investing in the country’s
multi-billion dollar port projects and offering it other grants, loans,
and freebies..............To Read More....
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