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.

Thotila
Thotilla or Thotila (Broken Bones Tree)

This plant grows up to eight meters in height. The plant can be seen in shrubbery lands in Sri Lanka. Leaves are oval or triangle. Tree is a night bloomer. Flowers are adopted to natural pollination by bats. They produce enormous Seeds pod (fruits) that are 75 cm long and 9 cm wide. Seeds are spread around with winds. Stems are with thick bark. Stem bark and roots are used for medical treatments by villagers in ayurvedic medicines. Villagers in Sri Lanka crush stem bark and then rub on the surface of swelled parts of the body as a treatment.