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  2. 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 ...

  3. Brail - Wikipedia

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    To haul and furl the sails, the command used in the early 18th century was hale up the brails or brail up the sails. [2] The word brail comes from Middle English brayle, from Anglo-French braiel belt, strap, brail, alteration of Old French braiuel belt, probably ultimately from Latin braca pant.

  4. Sinhala Braille - Wikipedia

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    Although Sinhala Braille was adopted from Bharati Braille, several letters toward the end of the Bharati alphabet (in the row of 'extra' letters) have been reassigned in Sinhala: ⠟ (Bharati kṣ) is used for Sinhala ඥ gn (Sanskrit jñ), ⠱ (Bharati jñ) for Sinhala ඵ ph, ⠷ (Bharati ḻ) for Sinhala ඇ æ, ⠻ (Bharati ṟ) for Sinhala ඈ ǣ, and ⠵ (Bharati z) for Sinhala ණ ṇ.

  5. Bharati Braille - Wikipedia

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    By 1951, a single national standard had been settled on, Bharati braille, which has since been adopted by Sri Lanka, [1] Nepal, and Bangladesh. [2] There are slight differences in the orthographies for Nepali in India and Nepal, and for Tamil in India and Sri Lanka.

  6. 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.

  7. Board of Investment of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BoI) (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආයෝජන මණ්ඩලය Shri Lanka Ayojana Mandalaya) is the investment promotion agency of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1992, expanding the scope of the Greater Colombo Economic Commission (GCEC) which was formed in 1978. [ 2 ]

  8. Guy (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    A guy (probably from Dutch gei, "brail") is a line attached to and intended to control the end of a spar on a sailboat. [1] On a modern sloop -rigged sailboat with a symmetric spinnaker , the spinnaker pole is the spar most commonly controlled by one or more guys.

  9. Sri Lankan irrigation network - Wikipedia

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    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 ...