{"id":115984,"date":"2021-07-11T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T23:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115984"},"modified":"2021-07-11T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T23:39:45","slug":"bamboo-villages-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/11\/bamboo-villages-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMBOO VILLAGES IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Wijesinghe President\u2019s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador\u2019s Forum<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Bamboo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bamboo is found\nand known in Sri Lanka as a tree belongs to the grass family, mainly grown in\nthe forest and in private, which is used in housing industry and craftsmanship\nin some parts of the country. It has not been utilized in larger scale in multi\npurposes such as in China, Indonesia, India and many parts of African, Asian\nand Latin American counties as an alternative for wood, housing, food, adhesive,\npulp, paper industry clothes, leaves as food in different forms, medicine,\npreparation of fertilizer, shoots a delicacy, flooring, furniture, <\/strong>and\nmany other purposes in small and large scale. It is a hidden treasure to be\nunearthed unknown to Sri Lanka, despite the excellent conditions in the country\nfor the growth of this plant. It grows comfortably in Sri Lankan soil with\nminimum or no fertilizer and grows as a faster growing plant much faster than\nany other tree used for wood which takes long years to grow when the bamboo\nwill be grown in few months. Multi use of this wonder plant us so useful in\nChina they call it the friend of the poor man and the saviour of the common\nman. In Indonesia bamboo bicycles are made strong and easy riding and houses in\nmany stands with bamboo plantations. India too is a bamboo country with large\nbamboo plantations and productive to the community and especially to the poor\nto be independent with a substantial source of income. It is grown easily with\na quick return which can be used as an interplant with other plantations and\nother sources of income. It grows in villages with no disturbances and leaving\nample room to be independent. Bamboo is an ideal plantation for the villager to\nbe self-sufficient in craftsmanship as the products have a great demand local\nand otherwise. Bamboo furniture is durable, convenient to make, not heavy to\ntransport with a beautiful appearance. Craftsmen produces are varied and\nnumerous, and attractive. Bamboo houses and flooring is strong, beautiful and\naffordable which is found in many Bamboo countries. It is healthy,\nenvironmental friendly and not heavy as any other wood. Growing and developing\nBamboo will prevent deforestation and felling of expensive wood illegally\ninviting global warming and climatic changes which is a threat to the world\ntoday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bamboo Villages\nand \u2018Kubbuths\u2019 Concept<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kubbuths\u2019 are\ncommunity clusters set up in Israel at the inception of the new nation with\nmost difficult hardships with less or no water and many other facilities except\nthe human resources. \u2018Kubbiths\u2019 is a self-sufficient unit consisting families\nand individuals living together sharing everything among each other a concept\npartially imported from Russia with new modifications, with a trade,\ndevelopments and innovations attached. For example some \u2018Kubbits\u2019 may be\nattached to mainly diary on a leased or a state land where everything\nincluding, food education, expenditure are shared and the accounts are to be\nshown to the community completely independent from the State, with tacit\napproval and acceptance of the state monitoring and encouraging the concept\nspread right round the country somewhat akin to the typical Sri Lankan\ntraditional village which Is self-sufficient and helps each other in every\nstep. For example for harvesting of the paddy field, other difficult\nagricultural work and putting up the \u2018Kadjan\u2019 \u2013 coconut roof , where lot of\nlabour is needed, entire or a part of the village would contribute in labour\nand other means  which goes round the\nvillage on turns. Villages does it to the community as a duty and a custom for\nthe development of the village which is still found in some traditional areas,\nwhich is excellent and exemplary may be not found in anywhere in the world. In\ntraditional \u2018\u2019Kubbuths\u2019\u2019 now developed with most modern trends, had school,\nsurgery, factor or the trade and entire infrastructure to be an independent\nunit. For example the diary started at the incubation period in 1948, have now transformed\ninto major companies converting the \u2018Kubbuths\u2019 too as companies and changing\nhands of the \u2018Kubbith\u2019 to  another\ngeneration. It is noted that today \nIsrael is  a nuclear world power,\nself-sufficient in water food having changed themselves according to the\nchanging world, which started with \u2018Kubbiths\u2019 concept and hard work with a\nvision led by visionaries who directed the successful voyage of\/for success. When\nIsraeli started the journey they had no water except some water in \u2018Galali\u2019\nriver. They spent a fortune to the desalination process of converting sea water\nto be used in agricultures and domestic use, with very many innovations by\ninnovators and scientists. The incubators of many Israeli innovations took\nplace in \u2018Kubbuths\u2019 and many leading personalities including a President has\nbeen a product of \u2018Kubbith\u2019.  Once Bamboo\nvillages are set up in Sri Lanka it could be expended worldwide in thousands of\nHA available for bamboo craftsmanship and plantations in Asia Africa and Latin\nAmerica awaiting and expecting to share the knowledge knowhow and the land. Needless\nto state that promotion and initiation should come from the state and bamboo\nstates worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kubbiths\u2019,\nTraditional Village and Bamboo Villages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is ideal to combine\nall these situations on setting bamboo villages separately or next to a large\nbamboo plantation so that the bamboo villagers could be a part of the Bamboo\nplantation and the craftsmen village may be with sale outlets such as\ntraditional \u2018Kaju Gama\u2019 or a similar concept could be adopted with state\nprivate partnership as the state has the monopoly and power on Bamboo\ncultivation with ample land available. It is the duty of the State and the\nprivate sector to import the expert knowledge and practices from China,\nIndonesia and other Bamboo countries for knowledge, knowhow and experience of\nthe growers and craftsmen to train the local citizen. This is a simple\nprocess\/project with moderately minimal investments preferable backed and\nparticipated by the State with innovative youth to start with, using all the\nconcepts abovementioned and the experiences of others worldwide. It is\nsuggested the Bamboo leaders to set up a network of bamboo help themselves and\nthe common man awaiting for assistance and ever prepared to assist .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarath Wijesinghe President\u2019s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador\u2019s Forum Bamboo Bamboo is found and known in Sri Lanka as a tree belongs to the grass family, mainly grown in the forest and in private, which is used in housing industry and craftsmanship in some parts of the country. It has not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarath-wijesinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}