Agricultural frameworks of Sri Lanka
1995
Thilakarathne, L. (Gifu Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture) | Yanagita, Y.
Agriculture, broadly defined as the work of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock, is the human activity that has had the greatest impact upon the global environment. Agriculture still plays a dominant roll in the Sri Lankan economy, contributing more than 20% of its Gross Domestic Product. During the past few decades the Sri Lankan agricultural sector in particular has undergone accelerated change. This agricultural development, i.e., the so-called Green Revolution, has been realized through the intensification of agricultural production and an expansion of agricultural land use. The fact that high input farming methods (while sustaining the growth in agricultural production) are undermining the ecological resource base upon which agriculture depends and are contributing to environmental degradation is, however, a matter of prime concern at present
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