Report on the Economic Survey of Six Villages in Matara District |
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50 cents agricultural labour alienation allotments allottees Arecanut arithmetic average bigger boats boutiques breadfruit bushels sown capital Census cents a day Ceylon citronella oil co-operative coir spinning Colombo consumption of milk copra coupons crops Crown Forests cultivation debt dents siders earn earners East Gatara Nape economic employment estates export farmer fishermen fishing villages Galle District Gandara East Gatara Gatara Nape Nawangoda given in Table gross incomes handicrafts holdings hookworm industry Jaggery Kalutara Labourers Owners less loans Maha mainly Matara District Nape Nawangoda Neralampitiya Nawangoda Neralampitiya Wenagama net incomes Number of Families obtained obviously ownership peasant perhaps population present principal occupation production Puttalam quartile reasons rice Rubber Tapping rural economy sell shown in Table Sinhalese six villages small owner sown per acre square mile survey tea and rubber Tenants Total number trade vating village economy Village Gandara East wealth whole Yala