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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. Livestock in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The land area of Sri Lanka is 65,610 km 2. and of this, 30% belongs to agricultural activities. From that 30%, 70% is solely devoted to crop production. The remainder consists of a mixture of crops and livestock. Hence, a very small proportion of the farmland is solely devoted to livestock production.

  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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  7. Bairaha Farms - Wikipedia

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    Bairaha Farms is one of the LMD 100 companies in Sri Lanka. LMD 100 is an annual list of listed companies in Sri Lanka, and Bairaha Farms ranks 99th in the 2020/21 edition of the list. [7] Bairaha is the 66th most valuable brand in Sri Lanka in 2022. Brand Finance calculates the brand value of Bairaha to be LKR960 million, a 12% increase from ...

  8. Category:Books about Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Books about Sri Lankan natural history (4 P) Novels set in Sri Lanka (29 P) P. ... Pages in category "Books ...

  9. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural history took a different path from the Old World as the Americas lacked large-seeded, easily domesticated grains (such as wheat and barley) and large domestic animals that could be used for agricultural labor. Rather than the practice which developed in the Old World of sowing a field with a single crop, pre-historic American ...