Sri Lanka (sheet total) (Maha) [Rainfed]
Paddy Sown Extent Ha. Hectares, annual.
222,043 Ha · 2025 (−0.9% on 2024)
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Data source: Department of Census and Statistics, Sown Extent-Maha Seasons-1979-2025
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About this series
- Source Department of Census and Statistics, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Hectares
- Date range 1983 – 2025
- Last checked 15 Sep 2026
Checks: 2 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Paddy Sown Extent Ha: Sri Lanka (sheet total) (Maha) [Rainfed]
- Read from
- DCS Paddy Statistics (Department of Census and Statistics)
- Source page
- http://www.statistics.gov.lk/Agriculture/StaticalInformation/PaddyStatistics
- Notes
- DCS Paddy Statistics, Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx, district breakdown. Maha season, stored at the first calendar year of the split season per docs/conventions.md. Districts sum to the sheet's own 'Sri Lanka' row - see check_paddy_district_totals(). Not held elsewhere: the ESS/load_ess.py AGR.PADDY family is national-level only.
Source documents
Vintages
One vintage so far, published 15 Sep 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.
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Source discrepancies
What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.
- Error in the source1984
The parts and the published total differ by 59,959 (138,078 against 198,037).
Consistency: 138,078 and 198,037, difference −59,959.
Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx RAINFED: districts do not sum to the sheet's 'Sri Lanka' row
Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx, 1984/1985 column: the SRI LANKA row's own Major+Minor+Rainfed (508,743) does not equal its own printed Total (568,743), short by exactly 60,000 - the source's own Rainfed cell for this row (138,078) is the broken one, not the district breakdown: re-summing the district Rainfed cells gives 198,037, matching the 60,000-corrected value far better.
- Error in the source1993
The parts and the published total differ by 8,200 (169,287 against 161,087).
Consistency: 169,287 and 161,087, difference 8,200.
Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx RAINFED: districts do not sum to the sheet's 'Sri Lanka' row
Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx, 1993/1994 column: Jaffna's own row [Major 0, Minor 0, Rainfed 932, Total 9132] fails its own arithmetic by exactly 8,200 - almost certainly a dropped leading digit in the Rainfed cell (932 where the row's own Total implies ~9,132), which alone accounts for this check's 8,200 gap.