...::: Seed Potatoes of Welimada Sri Lanka - A L A W A T H U G O D A . C O M :::...

Name of the farm	Size of the land / acre	Doing
Kandapola	115	Making seed Potatoes
Meepilimana	480	Making seed Potatoes / experiments
Piduruthalagala	329	Making seed Potatoes
Uda Randalla	186	Making seed Potatoes
Seetha Eliya	540	Making seed Potatoes / experiments

These seeds not enough to cultivation There fore government should import it. This is the cost which paid for import potatoes from other countries.

Year	Cost / Million
1984	500
1985	593
1986	630
1987	750
1988	922

Seed Potatoes is made by farmers in Maha season. This seeds use for Yala season. In Yala season farmers is being stopped buy imported seed potatoes because imported seeds is very expensive.

This is the graph of some farmers cultivate for making seed potatoes.

Size of the Land / acre	In Yala Season %	In Maha Season %	In Maha Season for Seeds	Percentage of sold Harvest %
More than 5	-	2.0	10 %	90 %
4 - 5	-	3.0	9 %	91 %
3 - 4	8.0	12.0	10 %	90 %
2 - 3	18.0	27.0	12 %	88 5
1 - 2	58.0	48.0	15 %	85 %
Less than 1	16.0	8.0	35 %	65 %