Abstract:
Sri Lanka has a great history of irrigation dating back to 500 BC. During the post-independence era,
successive governments launched a number of major and minor irrigation projects aiming at, among other
targets, agricultural and rural development. Nevertheless, irrigation-productivity nexus has limitedly been
investigated in the context of Sri Lanka. The overall objective of this study is to examine the impact of
irrigation on agricultural productivity. This study examines the impact of irrigation on selected crops,
namely paddy and maize, by estimating
