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Kegalle Area is situated in the Sabaragamuwa Province. At present we work at 06 locations. All the locations in the Kegalle Area are villages. We intend to extend our programmes to another 04 locations. The extension programmes will be directed towards the Plantation.

Pahinibaddara, Moragammana and Kalugala are Traditional Kandyan villages. The main occupation of the people of these villages is farming. The paddy cultivation and mixed crops are the main source of income. Many of the people are tenant farmers and they do not own the land. The agricultural production in Sri Lanka in todays context faces two major problems. The first is the low productivity and the second is not getting fair prices due to the open market system. Thus, many live below the poverty line.

Estates	Villages
Kumarapura	Pahinipaddera
Kalugala	Moragammana
	Kumarapura Colony
	Pallebage
	Parapitiya
	Narangala
	Gavilipitiya

A sense of backwardness appears to be the main hitch in Kalugala village. The difficulty to have access to the village due to bad roadways is also seen as a major contributory factor to this situation.

Kumarapura Watta is a colony where an old rubber plantation existed once. Due to excessive usage for over a hundred years, these lands became very unproductive. Hence there was a programme to distribute these lands among people (who were the workers of these rubber plantation) under the World Bank funded NADSA (National Agricultural Diversification Settlement Authority) programme.

last Updated January 29, 2004

last Updated January 29, 2004
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