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  2. Agriculture in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    It is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for Sri Lanka and accounts for 2% of GDP, generating roughly $700 million annually to the economy of Sri Lanka. It employs, directly or indirectly over 1 million people, and in 1995 directly employed 215,338 on tea plantations and estates. Sri Lanka is the world's fourth largest producer of tea.

  3. Locations in Sri Lanka with a Scottish name - Wikipedia

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    As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in Scotland. Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after Lochiel and Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as Moray , Forres , Glencairn and St Regulus .

  4. Livestock in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Hence, a very small proportion of the farmland is solely devoted to livestock production. In Sri Lanka, livestock sector contributes around 1.2% of the national GDP. Livestock is spread throughout all regions of Sri Lanka with concentrations of certain farming systems in particular areas due to cultural, market and agro-climatic reasons.

  5. Chena cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Chena is the oldest cultivation method in Sri Lanka, it goes far back as more than 5,000 years.(Before the Anuradhapura Kingdom) [1] [2] it the dry zone, the recovery of a chena plot proceeds through various stages of succession, (active chena, abandoned chena, chena re-growth, scrub with pioneer three species, scrub with secondary tree species, secondary forest, secondary forest with primary ...

  6. Category:Agriculture in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Agriculture in Sri Lanka" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Topographic map of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, an island in South Asia shaped as a teardrop or a pear/mango, [169] lies on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formerly part of the Indo-Australian Plate. [170] It is in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal, between latitudes 5° and 10° N, and longitudes 79° and 82° E. [171]

  8. Sri Lanka qualifies for Cricket World Cup; Zimbabwe, Scotland ...

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    Zimbabwe is still in position to take the last place and join cricket's biggest teams for the 50-over showpiece, although it must beat Scotland in its last game to be certain. Sri Lanka's crushing ...

  9. List of Scottish place names in other countries - Wikipedia

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    Invercargill has the appearance of a Scottish name, since it combines the Scottish prefix "Inver" (Inbhir), meaning a river's mouth, with "Cargill", the name of a leading early settler, who was born in Scotland. Invercargill's main streets are named after Scottish rivers (Dee, Tay, Spey, Esk, Don, Doon, Clyde, etc.), and many places in Dunedin ...