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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
In 2015 alone, Sri Lanka’s spice exports amounted to USD 377 million, up from USD 264 million the previous year. Sri Lanka’s most famous export, cinnamon is the island’s premier spice export. Industry insiders classify the spice into two forms, Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum Zeylanicum), and Cassia Cinnamon. Ceylon cinnamon is the costlier ...
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]
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: 23 July 1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Minister of Agriculture, Land, Irrigation and Power [17] Felix Dias Bandaranaike: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 May 1963: Minister of Agriculture, Food and Co-operative Development [18] M. D. Banda: United National Party: Dudley Senanayake: Minister of Agriculture and Food [19] Hector ...
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Around the 300 plants per acre could be planted at a spacing of 250 mm × 360 mm (10 in × 14 in). Cocoa can be picked from the fourth year. The main crop is obtained from October to January, with a smaller crop in May to July. Yields vary from 100–200 kg (220–440 lb) per ha under the heavy shade. [5]
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 ...