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Number of Livestock Farmers - 2025 *(1)
District No. of Farmers Raising
Cattle Buffaloe Farmers Goat Swine Poultry
Local Poultry Broiler Farms Egg Producing Farms Total
less than
10 animals		 10 to 50
animals		 more than
50 animals		 No. of
Chicken
Below 1000		 No. of
Chicken
Over 1000		 No. of
Chicken
Below 1000		 No. of
Chicken
Over 1000
COLOMBO 1,156 387 260 97 1,810 350 17 28 46 106 42 2,399
GAMPAHA 5,334 608 1,186 884 5,813 1,560 164 400 121 1,278 37 9,379
KALUTARA 2,191 944 938 90 3,684 606 26 82 41 265 04 4,708
KANDY 5,370 413 3,239 19 6,574 1,148 98 172 49 931 19 8,991
MATALE 3,000 276 1,161 254 5,446 883 134 112 50 435 16 7,076
NUWARA-ELIYA 4,050 311 2,194 421 6,525 564 54 298 35 1100 11 8,587
GALLE 1,961 1,427 552 47 2,686 583 34 47 22 491 17 3,880
MATARA 1,656 543 426 13 1,592 274 41 84 08 165 13 2,177
HAMBANTOTA 2,260 2,036 241 53 1,751 869 45 46 09 214 4 2,938
JAFFNA 12,712 0 18,388 6 10,805 1,467 56 392 0 854 0 13,574
MANNAR 6,243 466 1,746 4 155 92 22 724 58 52 18 1,121
VAVUNIYA 5,189 88 1,850 12 2,420 1,258 43 113 0 94 0 3,928
MULLATIVU 4,810 368 1,489 16 3,734 1,195 25 111 0 228 0 5,293
KILINOCHCHI 5,087 46 3,276 9 3,337 573 53 507 0 910 0 5,380
BATTICALOA 5,391 1,867 4,027 6 4,204 1,400 100 707 6 805 5 7,227
AMPARA 8,041 1,174 1,854 13 3,490 2,722 201 687 38 1,165 5 8,308
TRINCOMALEE 4,003 2,023 3,002 8 7,971 1,758 68 280 7 128 2 10,214
KURUNEGALA 19,461 1,441 2,473 738 8,457 1,938 165 634 229 852 875 13,150
PUTTALAM 5,740 626 2,416 2,555 9,057 1,548 415 502 212 464 891 13,089
ANURADHAPURA 17,010 1,740 965 171 5,203 1,280 345 188 53 1,156 4 8,229
POLONNARUWA 5,815 949 1,177 41 3,292 861 65 180 67 1,130 5 5,600
BADULLA 9,875 102 2,015 15 4,011 451 21 357 10 2,484 15 7,349
MONERAGALA 4,592 971 410 10 2,198 723 9 155 19 617 1 3,722
RATNAPURA 2,435 432 1,413 32 3,036 917 18 79 41 520 4 4,615
KEGALLE 1,515 423 1,139 30 2,171 360 10 118 61 392 1 3,113
Total 144,897 19,661 57,837 5,544 109,422 25,386 2,229 7,003 1,182 16,836 1,989 164,047

* Provisional

(1) Exchange the Livestock data for Puttalam Ds Division(Puttalam District)