The Impact of Drought: A Study Based on Anuradhapra District in Sri Lanka

Anuradhapura District being one of the paddy providers in Sri Lanka highly affected due to the drought disaster. The trend and cause for the drought should be identified for future remedial measures. Thus this study is conducted based on the following objective. The primary objective is that ‘identifying the impact of drought in Anuradhapura District' and the secondary objective are ‘finding the direct and indirect factors causing drought and the influence of drought in agriculture in the study area and proposing suggestions to lessen the impact of drought in the study area. To attain these objectives data from 1900 to 2014 were collected. All the data were analysed and the trend of drought, condition of drought and the impact of drought were identified. Many suggestions have been provided in the suggestion part.