Agriculture and Society in the Low Country, Sri LankaResearch paper on agricultural development, rural employment and poverty in rural areas of Sri Lanka, 1976-1978 - based on a field study of wet climate districts, examines underemployment of low income unskilled workers, rural women and the landless; studies social structures impeding employment creation; covers rural migration, agricultural production of plantations and peasant farmers, land utilization, cultivation techniques, crop yields, effects of deforestation, etc. Glossary, maps, references, statistical tables. |
Contents
The Regional Impact of Agricultural Development | 7 |
The Low Country | 13 |
Three Low Country Villages | 36 |
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acre activities affected agricultural Ambalangoda analysis anicuts areas average cash Census Chapter cinnamon coconut Colombo colonies crop Dhanagamuwa drainage dry zone economic employment especially estates factors family farm family labour females fertiliser Galle and Matara Galle district groups harvest highland hired labour HYVs important income increase irrigation irrigation tank Kalutara Kalutara districts Kandy Kandyan Kegalle kinds labour force labour inputs latively less levels Low Country M. P. Moore Maha mainly males Matara districts non-agricultural organisation paddy cultivation paddy farmers paddy fields paddy land paddy production peeling Percentage plots political Polpitiya poor population poverty problem public sector rates reasons relationship relatively rice rubber rural wet zone sample villages Sinhalese smallholder social soil sowing Sri Lanka statistical study villages Table tenants tend three villages tractors transplanting urban varieties Vidane village households wage Wattegama and Weligalagoda Wattegama Weligalagoda weeds workers Yala yields