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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Sri Lanka, [c] historically known as Ceylon, [d] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
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Journal of Food and Agriculture — Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management and Faculty of Livestock Fisheries and Nutrition; Sri Lankan Journal of Banking and Finance — Department of Banking and Finance; Wayamba Journal of Animal Science - Department of Livestock and Avian Sciences
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 ...