Abstract:
Rubber plantation has acceded the second place in out of the ways in earning foreign
exchange in Sri Lanka. Rubber plantation is very important for the Sri Lankan
economy as it is an industrial raw material that is used in many local Industries. The
demand for rubber in the world economy was being increased day by day since the
past. As a result, the production of natural rubber, as well as artificial rubber, was
begun. With the induction of artificial rubber, the demand for natural rubber was
rapidly decreased. The laborers in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia
were strongly focused because of this. This situation has influenced Sri Lanka alike.
Through that importing and exporting labour can be seen to rubber plantation with
the introduction of new technology, special abilities in labourer’s labour, practices,
the dedication of labour time changes in work can be seen as tendencies in a rubber
plantation. The basic income of laborers connected to cultivation is based on industry.
Because of that, it is easy to study the changes of labourer’s labour in tendencies of
rubber plantation. The main objective of this experiment is to identify the new
tendencies that have become an influence on the division in labour in the rubber
plantation. This was done with the selected group of labourers as a sample who work
affecting the Edurapola rubber state which is located in Lewala GND of
Bulathkohupitiya Divisional Secretariat Division in Kegalle district. And also 30
people who do the plantation as their occupation were selected randomly from the
10% of the houses available in the same GND for the experiment by chance. The data
analysis has been presented through the graphs and bars using the Excel sheet and the
data gathered from the interviews and the observation have been analyzed in a
relevant analytical way. Not only that but also the physical nature of the area has been
described and men timed by considering the geographic information system. Data
collection was done the following and wing the central methods such as
questionnaires, interviews, observation and other secondary sources such as
newspapers, magazines, internet, etc. Inter crops can be identified as a common
tendency in a rubber plantation in the area. Due to that, there is a great division of
labour in a rubber plantation.
