Better be prepared and proactive to pre-empt calamities

In recent months, several parts of Sri Lanka had been battered and bruised by a series of catastrophic droughts, torrential rains, floods and landslides, which left tens of thousands of people homeless, their houses damaged or destroyed and housed in temporary shelters for weeks if not months. In the wake of so much pain and misery now comes the horrific news of a marauding caterpillar identified as ‘Sena’ destroying our farmlands, leaving our cultivators with their livelihood rui