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Sri Lanka's economy expanded 7.1 percent during the first quarter of this year, the statistics office said Friday, as the island picks itself up after a long civil war. The growth for the January-March period, up from 1.6 percent at the same point last year, was boosted by expansion in farm produce and services.

"This promising growth was mainly backed by prevailing peace across the country and also easing of the global economic recession to a certain extent," the department said in a statement.

The economy has continued to benefit from stability after the 37-year conflict against separatist Tamils ended in May last year.

Agriculture, which includes rice, tea, rubber and fishing, expanded 9.0 percent, compared with 3.0 percent a year earlier, lifted by a 47.2 percent growth in tea production.

Makers of Sri Lanka's "Pure Ceylon Tea," the island's chief cash crop, enjoyed good weather and increased global demand.

The country's central bank this month projected the 41-billion-dollar economy would expand 7.0 percent this year compared with 3.5 percent in 2009, due to post-war expansion in reconstruction and farming.

Some 100,000 people perished during the conflict, according to UN estimates. (AFP)
 


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