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Abstract
The agricultural sector of Sri Lanka, which was the back bone of the economy,
suffered due to various reasons including the mostly argued policy reforms called
Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs). Having considered the problems
associated with the earlier models, we have used the two sector general equilibrium
model with growth accounting approach using GRM which is the effect exogenous
variables on endogenous variables in this paper. Since SAPs had many policy
variables to analyze, we have considered only the most important variables as
explained in this paper. Our analysis revealed the contradictory results in
comparison to some of the earlier studies. The overall results point out that policy
changes are favorable to the overall agriculture development though their impact on
the domestic food sector is negative. Since we have considered the fertilizer effect as
most serious determinant under policy change, our study clearly indicates that the
fertilizer prices tremendously effect the agriculture production and it was also
negatively affecting the domestic food production. Secondly this paper also analyzed
the impact of non-agriculture products and prices and found out that these
positively helped the development of overall agriculture. Thirdly, food imports are
open under the new policy reforms and make considerably large impact on the
domestic food production.