{"id":5387,"date":"2019-02-14T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T04:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astan.lk\/al_virtualclassroom\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:51:58","slug":"agricultural-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astan.lk\/al_virtualclassroom\/agricultural-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Before 1977 agricultural sector was dominated in Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>Half of the national production was supported by agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>Before 1977 within state dominated economic policy more were engaged in paddy farming and rural sector food crops farming.<\/li>\n<li>Domestic agricultural sector contribution towards Gross Domestic Product declined gradually.<\/li>\n<li>Today large contribution of agricultural sector is consists with other crops including vegetables and fruits.<\/li>\n<li>Second and third place are owned by paddy and plantation crops in order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Problems relating to Domestic agriculture<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Importing of agricultural crops create problems in domestic agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Increase in prices of agricultural inputs<\/li>\n<li>Problems like weak water management and lack of high quality seeds<\/li>\n<li>Insect problems<\/li>\n<li>Demarcation of lands and problems in tenant cultivation<\/li>\n<li>Problems with marketing<\/li>\n<li>Damages to pre and post harvest<\/li>\n<li>Using of more lands for plantation crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Policy strategies taken in recent to improve Domestic agricultural sector\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Act to improve skills used in agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Empower private entrepreneurs<\/li>\n<li>Improve food processing technology<\/li>\n<li>Improve cultivation of fruits and flowers<\/li>\n<li>Improve domestic milk production<\/li>\n<li>Spread the knowledge of information technology relating to agriculture at rural level<\/li>\n<li>Protecting of resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steps taken recently to improve Plantation sector\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Making of a national plan for the development of plantation sector.<\/li>\n<li>Establish an active fund for the development of plantation crops of tea, rubber and coconut<\/li>\n<li>Providing of fertilizer subsidy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Agro based Industries\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Coconut related industries\n<ul>\n<li>Coconut oil production<\/li>\n<li>Copra production<\/li>\n<li>Coir related products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Milk related industries\n<ul>\n<li>Yogurt production<\/li>\n<li>Ice cream production<\/li>\n<li>Curd production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rubber related industries\n<ul>\n<li>Tire production<\/li>\n<li>Metres production<\/li>\n<li>Sheet rubber production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before 1977 agricultural sector was dominated in Sri Lanka. 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