SRI LANKA'S "NEW" ECONOMIC POLICY 35 22 TIie data are from a survey of settlers in the Mcegalawe and Galnewa areas of system-H, ilbO called H-aied, conducted by Prof Michcl dc VioyoftheLou\am Catholic University I vsas associated with this work which wis a part of a joint study on land settlements in Sri I anka 23 SAB Ekaiisyake. op at. 24 "Banks provide tractor loans to creditworthy farmers up to 80 per cent of the cost, the balance 20 per cent to be advanced by the farmer concerned In the whole of H-area 51 t\ o-wheel tractors and 43 four-wheel tractors we^e purchaser by settlers up to March (1981)", S A B Fkaniyake, op cit. 2^ S S A L Sinwardhana, "Fmergin^ Income Inequalities and Forms of Hidden Tenancy in the Mahaweli H Are-i'*, People's Bank, 1981 26 See Plyasin Wickremasekera, "The Mahaweli Development Piogramme Agrarian Change and the Peasantry", 1983 (mimeo).