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Transformation of Smallholder Agriculture Sector in Sri Lanka

An Annotated Compendium of Statistics

Publisher: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI)

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Year: 2011

Page Numbers: 161

Acc. No: 4118

Class No: 338.1 NAD-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Agriculture

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-955-612-100-1

The smallholder agricultural sector in the island has become the major domestic food supplier over the decades with supportive policies and enormous investment of limited budgetary resources. The study research highlights that further scope for agricultural productivity growth and growth in production to meet the demand of a growing population is to be achieved by increasing the intensity of production through application of new technologies to improve productivity and crop diversification.