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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.
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 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 ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 9 November 2018 - 15 December 2018 [29] Navin Dissanayake: United National Party: 20 December 2018 - 21 November 2019 [30] Ramesh Pathirana: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 22 November 2019 - 12 August 2020 Gotabaya Rajapaksa [31] Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna: 12 August 2020 - 23 October 2023 [32] Mahinda Amaraweera
Main page; Contents; Current events; ... Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) Year Source ... Sri Lanka: 26.7: 2017 [1]
The Public Services of Sri Lanka are a series of services groups that provide specialized professional services to the Government of Sri Lanka.These are government employees who carry out public duties, however they are not elected officials.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party [18] D. S. Goonesekera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 May 1963: 25 March 1965: Minister of Labour and Social Services [18] M. H. Mohamed: United National Party: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: Minister of Labour, Employment and Housing [19] [20] M. P. de Zoysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 29 May 1970: 23 July ...
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%. [40] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [41]