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Ceylon cinnamon is the costlier variety and is considered to be a much more upmarket product by those in the West. Sri Lanka exported USD 128 million worth of cinnamon in 2014, which accounted for 28% of global cinnamon exports for that year. [17] Black pepper is the second largest export spice in Sri Lanka. Most black pepper is exported to India.
Rice production or Paddy production is one of the main productions and staple foods in Sri Lanka. It cultivates in all districts of Sri Lanka during two monsoon seasons. It is estimated that about 708,000 ha (1,750,000 acres) of land uses for paddy. [1] The seasons are called Maha season and Yala season.
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.
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 ...
By the 1980s, 90% of the farmland in Sri Lanka was being used to cultivate the "semi-dwarf" (newly improved) rice variety. Currently, 95% of the rice produced in Sri Lanka are hybrid varieties. These are harvested using non- organic fertilizer and pesticides which are needed to produce larger harvests with lower costs.
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Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 1963-1965 Minister of Agriculture, Food and Co-operative Development S. K. K. Suriarachchi: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 1970-1977 Minister of Food, Co-operatives and Small Industries Wijeyananda Dahanayake: United National Party: 1986-1988 Minister of Co-operatives Lalith Athulathmudali: United National Party