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  2. Department of Agriculture (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Tank cascade system - Wikipedia

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    Rain clouds over a tank in Sri Lanka The tank cascade system ( Sinhala : එල්ලංගාව , romanized: ellaṅgāva ) is an ancient irrigation system spanning the island of Sri Lanka . It is a network of thousands of small irrigation tanks ( Sinhala : වැව , romanized: wewa ) draining to large reservoirs that store rainwater and ...

  6. Ministry of Agriculture (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation

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    The Minister of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. Parties Sri Lanka Freedom Party United National Party

  8. 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.

  9. System of Rice Intensification - Wikipedia

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    SRI focuses on changing the management of plants, soil, water, and nutrients to create a more productive and sustainable system of rice cultivation. [2] A comparison of SRI grown rice to conventional methods. The methodology has been adopted by millions of smallholder farmers around the world, particularly in Asia and Africa.

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