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Agricultural spray adjuvants do not reduce the amount of pesticide needed below the recommended use rate on a pesticide label. In fact, it is illegal to use a pesticide in the US outside of the instructions on the label, although FIFRA , the US law governing pesticide use, does allow for the use of pesticides at rates below the label, as long ...
The Department of Agriculture (DOA) functions under the Ministry of Agriculture of Government of Sri Lanka is one of the largest government departments with a high profile community of agricultural scientists and a network of institutions covering different agro ecological regions island wide. DOA focuses on maintaining and increasing ...
Sri Lanka exported USD 128 million worth of cinnamon in 2014, which accounted for 28% of global cinnamon exports for that year. [17] Black pepper is the second largest export spice in Sri Lanka. Most black pepper is exported to India. But India and Vietnam re-export to Europe Sri Lankan pepper under the Indian/Vietnam label. [18]
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 27 July 2005: Minister of Agriculture [35] Maithripala Sirisena: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 November 2005: Mahinda Rajapaksa: Minister of Agriculture, Environment, Irrigation and Mahaweli Development [36] 28 January 2007: Minister of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services [37] [38] [39] Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena ...
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [41] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [42]
The earliest examples of irrigation works in Sri Lanka date from about 430 BCE, during the reign of King Pandukabhaya, and were under continuous development for the next thousand years. In addition to constructing underground canals , the Sinhalese were the first to build completely artificial reservoirs to store water , referred to as tanks ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000 - 12 December 2001 Chandrika Kumaratunga [14] [15] [16] Lakshman Kiriella: United National Party: 12 December 2001 – 2 April 2004 [17] [18] Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 April 2004 - 23 November 2005 [19] [20] [21] Milroy Fernando: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 November 2005 - 28 ...
Sri Lankan farmers (1 C, 2 P) Sugar industry of Sri Lanka (6 P) T. ... Pages in category "Agriculture in Sri Lanka" The following 15 pages are in this category, out ...