Is Low Agricultural Productivity Keeping Batticaloa Poor?

By Roshini Jayaweera - (Research Officer – IPS)

In considering issues of poverty in Sri Lanka, Batticaloa is conspicuous as a district that requires particular attention. In addition to being identified as the country’s poorest district in 2009/10, it is also one of two districts for which poverty statistics actually increased between 2006/07 and 2009/10.

According to the latest Household