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SRILANKA AGRICULTURE
 Including forestry and fishing - Accounted for over 46 percent of exports, over 40 percent of the labor force, and around 28 percent of the GNP in 1986. The dominant crops were paddy, tea, rubber, and coconut. In the late 1980s, the government-sponsored Accelerated Mahaweli Program irrigation project opened a large amount of new land for paddy cultivation in the dry zone of the eastern part of the island (see fig. 7). In contrast, the amount of land devoted to tea, coconut, and rubber remained stable in the forty years after independence. Land reforms implemented in the 1970s affected mainly these three crops. Little land was distributed to small farmers; instead it was assumed by various government agencies. As a result, most tea and a substantial proportion of rubber production was placed under direct state control.
Agricultural growth : 111
Arable and permanent cropland : 1,910 thousand hectares
Cereal production : 111 thousand metric tons
(per capita) : 0.00 thousand metric tons per 1000 people
Cereal production growth : 3
Cotton exports : 0 thousand bales
Cotton imports : 110 thousand bales
Cotton production : 5 thousand bales
Cotton stocks : 16 thousand bales
Cotton use : 115 thousand bales
Exports to USA - Bananas : $2
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Berries : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Cashew nuts : $166
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Cherries : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
 Exports to USA - Coconuts : $42
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Cucumbers and gherkins : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Fruit juices : $32
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Fruits and nuts : $180
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Garlic : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Kidney and white beans : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Lemons : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Lentils : $0
(per capita) : $0 per 1000 people
 Exports to USA - Mangoes guavas and mangosteens : $23
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Papayas: $33
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Exports to USA - Pineapples : $31
(per capita) : $0.00 per 1000 people
Fertilizer use : 128.9
Grains - Rice imports : 90 thousand metric tons
(per capita) : 4.55 thousand metric tons per 1 million people
Grains - Wheat imports : 900 thousand metric tons
(per capita) : 45.58 thousand metric tons per 1 million people
Labor share : 45.2
 Meat production : 91 thousand metric tons
(per capita) : 0.00 thousand metric tons per 1000 people
Meat production growth : 107 %
Organic cropland : 15,215 hectares
(per capita) : 0.77 hectares per 1000 people
Organic cropland share : 0.7
(per capita) : 3.54e-05 % per 1000 people
 Permanent crops : 1,020,000 hectares
(per capita) : 51.66 hectares per 1000 people
Products : rice, sugarcane, grains, pulses, oilseed, spices, tea, rubber, coconuts; milk, eggs, hides, beef
Root and tuber production : 379 thousand metric tons
(per capita) : 0.01 thousand metric tons per 1000 people
Root and tuber production growth : -41
Tractor concentration : 4.2
Tractors : 8,000
(per capita) : 405.21 per 1 million people
Value added : 19.48% (2001)
Workers per hectare : 2.0
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