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By Minuri Perera and Shaneendra Amarasinghe
Although Sri Lanka takes pride in being an agricultural economy, the agricultural sector only contributes to 7.4 percent of the national gross domestic production (GDP) out of which only 5.2 percent comes from farming. Despite the relatively low contribution to GDP, employment in the agricultural sector has remained disproportionately large.
In 2020, labour force...
