Sri Lanka flooding: 106,000 hectares of rice paddy fields damaged

The Sri Lankan government is encouraging farmers to replant rice paddies affected by recent floods.
More than 100,000 hectares of paddy fields are estimated to be damaged.

Al Jazeera's Minelle Fernandez reports.
Nishan Del Mer, Executive Director of the Verite Research Center.

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