Gliricidia – Fourth Plantation Crop of Sri Lanka

The three traditional major cash crops in Sri Lanka; Tea, Rubber and Coconut were introduced during the colonial period. Since then the economic potential of a number of other crops has been exploited: pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, sugarcane etc; but none of them has had a large enough economic impact to be declared the Fourth Cash Crop of Sri Lanka.

 

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GLIRICIDIA- Fourth Plantation Crop of Sri Lanka