The land area of Sri Lankahas been computedTo be 65525 SqKm or6552500 Ha. OverallLand use in Sri Lanka is as
follows:
NO. Description Extent (HA)
1 Excluded for Streams and reservations 290,000
2 Reservoirs 113,300
3 Steep land, Land above 1525m contour and barren land 533,900
4 Wild life reserves 906,921
5 Forest reserves, Marsh and Mangroves under forest department 1,421,954
6 Forest plantations (man made forests) 93,000
7 Roads, Railways, harbors, Airports and other uses 165,000
8 Homesteads 925,000
9 Paddy 703,264
10 Coconut 443,952
11 Tea 210,622
12 Rubber 114,678
13 Sugar Cane 10,600
14 Other export crops and subsidiary crops 78,020
15 Sparsely used and balance land 755,553
* Data source: www.statistics.gov.lk
No Scientific count of Paddy lands & Agriculture land extents
No proper link with the land & Farmer No proper link with subsidies, Location of
the land & Extents No Scientific identification of water
resources allocations & farming lands Change Management of the land
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Data transfer from one party to another
Geoinformatics International (Pvt.) Ltd, established for the
commercial application of combined technologies of GPS
(Global Positioning Satellites) receivers, GPRS (Global
Positioning Roaming Systems), GSM (Global System for
Mobile Communications), GIS (Geographical Information
Systems), RS (Remotely Sensed Earth Observation) & ICT
(Information & Communication Technology).
•Digital Globe Inc, USA
•Indian Remote Sensing Data(National Remote sensing agency)
•ERDAS INC, USA
•Laser Technology Inc, USA
•Astech Professional GPS of France
•SPCEYES 3D , Map preparation software of France
•Pitney Bowes Location Intelligent systems.USA (MapInfo & MapXtream
•Bentley Inc,USA.
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Past recordsCost dataHistoryFuture expectationsEtc.
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