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.
Maiyokka (Manioc tree)
This plant is known as Maiyokka in Sinhala and Manioc in English. However, it is commonly known as cassava. In Sri Lanka, manioc is commonly seen in districts in low country. It can be grown up country as well. The yams of manioc is used as vegetable while young leaves is used to make “Mallum” most probably in remote areas. Some people like to eat yams alone with sambol or coconut kern by boiling them. There are two kinds of manioc in color, yellow and white. Husk of the tuber is kept in dry condition by some villagers to make food by frying. Recently, crips prepared by manioc yams is available in shops in Sri Lanka.