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Revitalizing Small-Scale Agriculture: Rental Policies
of Alienated State Lands of Sri Lanka
D Marawila *
ABSTRACT
Currently, the small-scale farmers in Sri Lanka are
loosing competitiveness and rapidly moving out of agriculture, lack of
access as well as well defined rights to land being major limitations.
Possibility of increasing agriculture production through improved land
rental markets in the alienated state lands was conversed in this study
and results revealed that the removal of restrictions is likely to
facilitate smooth functioning of rental market and thereby improve the
land use efficiency. The study concluded that provided a conducive
economic environment, land rental market can be used as an effective
tool in the rural development process of the country.
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The author is Research Officer, Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka.
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Marawila
2007 Sri Lankan
Journal of
Agricultural Economics. Volume 9 (1). Pp. 23 -42
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