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The objective of the Mahaweli River Development Programme
besides the hydropower component are mainly related
with the regional development perspective. Increased
agricultural production through opening up of new lands
and providing assured irrigation facilities and opening
up of new employment opportunities in agricultural sector
by settling landless farmers with the assurance of high
standards of living conditions are main objectives of
the programme.
The extent of irrigated lands under the purview of Mahaweli
Authority is about 90,000 hectares. Each family is given
one hectare of irrigated land and 0.2 hectares of homestead.
The major soil types in Mahaweli areas are Reddish Brown
Earths, Non Classic Brown Soils and Low Humic Gley soils.
Reddish Brown Soils are more suitable for growing other
field crops and horticultural crops while other two
types of soils are suitable for growing rice.
Rice is the predominant crop grown in Maha Season (September
to March) while other crops like chilli ,onion, maize
,soy bean cowpea green gram and vegetables are grown
in addition to rice in Yala Season ( April to August)
Banana and papaya are two fruit crops successfully grown
in Mahaweli systems and production is available through
out the year.
New -- Paddy Statistics – Mahaweli Special Areas – 2011 Yala Season
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Progress & Estimated Production of Mahaweli Systems
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Progress & Estimated Production of Mahaweli Systems
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The
target extent of paddy for 2008/09 maha is 33% higher than
the cultivated extent of previous maha season. Out of this
target 93% has been achieved by now. Mainly due to the market
improvement of paddy cultivation in trincomalee, Anuradhapura
, Puttalam & Mahaweli areas which have achieved more than
100% of the target. (more)
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