Welcome to WagaBima

Introduction

Wagabima website is initially built to share the experiences acquired from the small coconut land situated in the remote area in Sri Lanka. The land originally comprised of old coconut trees and some other trees such as Teak, Mahogany, and breadfruit etc. Latter, new coconut plants have been planted under the existing old trees. At the second stage, Banana and Pepper were cultivated as intercrops by dividing the land into two. At present, three major cultivations are ongoing successfully in the land. Accordingly, more pages of website are to discuss the activities undertaken, problems encountered and solutions applied at each stage of purchasing of a land, preparation, choosing and purchasing of plants, cultivating, maintaining and harvesting.

Further, the website displays a selected plant with its image and brief description including value and beliefs prevailing among rural communities in Sri Lanka.It is sure that this will be useful for researchers, students, and farmers, since the availability of some  information is very rare.

The cultural and social activities such as legends, games, performances and events which were common to the ancient rural agricultural communities in several decades ago are likely to disappear from the societies at present. However, a few of them are only available with elders living in villages  in verbally.  some contents of those activities  may  differ  from province to province or  district to district or village to village .  However, several pages of this site are assigned to such information for the benefits of interested people.

Pitawakka
Mai mara (MayFlower) tree

This is a common tree can be seen in more parts of Sri Lanka. When the flower blossoms this will be a very picturesque plant. Planting along the road, this tree gives beauty as well as shelter from sunlight. The flowers are highly decorative. The plant blooms in month of May in Sri Lanka. The tree grows to a medium height. Leaves and branches cover the tree heavily. Accordingly, the trees are widely use secure beauty and landscape in the garden.