Travel to Sri Lanka: Colombo: Photo 1
The coastal plain a few miles east of Colombo has a very distinctive land-use pattern, with lowland paddy fields in a dendritic pattern separated by forest gardens. The forested area is misleading, because it's heavily peppered with homes occupied by urban commuters. Much of the paddy land, though green, is now simply in grass. That's because paddy prices are so low that the crop makes sense only for the farmer's own family, for whom it replaces rice that would otherwise be bought in the market.
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