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Sri Lanka has a problem.
The government wants farmers to grow organic food.
Organic food grows without chemicals.
Tea is very important in Sri Lanka.
Tea needs chemicals to grow well.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made a new law.
Farmers can't use chemicals.
Herman Gunaratne is a tea maker.
He is worried.
Sri Lanka has another problem.
The economy isn't good.
Many people don't have jobs.
Coronavirus is making things worse.
The government stopped buying chemicals.
Now farmers can't use them.
So, there'll be less tea.
In Sri Lanka, millions of people work on tea farms.
Gunaratne says many people won't have work.
Sri Lanka's tea is famous.
Sri Lanka sells a lot of tea.
It gets $1.25 billion every year.
Gunaratne disagrees with the new law.
He thinks there will be 50 percent less tea.
And more people will lose their jobs.
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