Beyond The Tourism

 According to the SLTDA statistical report in 2018, there are five major market sources to Sri Lanka that is Indian, German, China, United Kindom, and Australia. Also, 84.8% percentage of tourists visit Sri Laka in 2018 purposes on pleasure & vacation. So don’t you think Agri Tourism activities are the best holiday vacation for someone who likes to staying and chilling with natural habitats for those top 5 foreign mates? In the last two articles, we mentioned about the background and main concepts about Agri tourism and regional countries which conduct this breathtaking industry as their rural economics values. So as the third step of these series we are introducing about Sri Lanka is one of the flourishing isle for agrotourism.

Sri Lanka has a long history of agriculture which has been developed over a course of 2500 years. This includes ancient irrigation tanks, and plantations and paddy cultivation systems.

While this is mainly appreciated by a niche market of agro-tourists, Sri Lanka is an ideal location to experience agriculture as well as the way of life of the local people of Sri Lanka.

There are different types of agro-tourism in Sri Lanka. They mainly focus on educational, recreational and income as well. Here are the main 7 categories of agro-tourism in Sri Lanka;

1. Food production (vegetable/pumpkin farm)

2. Animal farms (sheep farm, fish farm)

3. Markets and retail (annual festival)

4. Plants and gardens (Greenhouse)

5. Overnight stays (camping – farm vacation)

6. Features (Angry cultural museum)

7. Activities (Farm wedding)

As we know this concept is a bit newly experience for inbound tourists even though we met most of the activities in rurally but thing is the tourism industry has give an economic value those things. However there are some locations which provide accommodation right in the middle of the paddy fields and villages to give a better experience with the locals. Popular locations for agro-tourism include the locations in Central, Uva and Southern provinces of the country for paddy cultivation and other cultivations like tea, rubber and coconut. However the hill country is also a top pick for vegetable and dairy farming.

Agro Technology Parks are established by the Department of Agriculture with the objectives of agriculture extension, education, and agro-tourism in Sri Lanka. The first Agri technology Park was formed in Gannuruwa in the Kandy district. The second Agri technology Park was established in the Hambantota district adjoining the Bataatha government farm (Department of Agriculture, 2014). In these agricultural farms, agricultural activities ranging from hi-tech agriculture to traditional agriculture are demonstrated for the visitors. It also strongly focuses on the dissemination of information to farmers, school children, and the general public provides education and training mechanism, demonstrate the recommended crop varieties and technologies and edible landscaping consisting of tropical crops. When we come up with real life accommodations are mostly basic, mainly to give guests more experience through the surrounding activities than merely the hotel stay. However, there are a few luxury properties that do provide agro-tourism experiences, while providing the best accommodation.

Presently, newly built Jetwing Kaduruketha is the popular hotel for agro-tourism is in Sri Lanka.

The property occupies a small space in the 60acre land that is mainly used for the cultivation of paddy. This gives guests easy access to experience the culture and daily life of the farming community.

This magical isle Sri Lanka is awaiting your arrival to greet you warmly and let you depart with lots of fond memories worth a life time.

2018, ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරක සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය  සංඛ්‍යාලේඛන වාර්තාවට අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සඳහා ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් 84.8% ක සංචාරකයන් ප්‍රමාණයක් නිවාඩු ගත කිරීමේ අරමුන මත පැමිණේ. 

ඉතින් මේ ලිපි මාලාවේ තුන්වන පියවර ලෙස අපි ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ගැන ආඩම්බරයෙන් හඳුන්වා දෙන්නෙ කෘෂි සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ සමෘධිමත් දූපතක් ලෙසින් 2500ක කාලයකට ඉපැරණි ඉතිහාසයක් හෙබි ගොව්තැන හා සසැඳි ආර්ථික රටාවන් තුල පෝෂණය වූ ලාංකිකයන් මෙය දියුණු කිරීම සඳහා පුරාණ වාරිමාර්ග ටැංකි සහ වැවිලි හා වී වගා ක්‍රම අත්හදා බලන ලදි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දේශීය ජනතාවගේ ජීවන රටාව ද අත්විඳීමට මෙය කදිම තෝතැන්නක් බව නොඅනුමානය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විවිධ වර්ගයේ කෘෂි සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාර තිබේ.  ඔවුන් ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් අධ්යාපනය කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කරයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කෘෂි සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරයේ ප්‍රධාන කාණ්ඩ 7 කි.

 1. ආහාර නිෂ්පාදනය (එළවළු / වට්ටක්කා ගොවිපල)

 2. සත්ව ගොවිපලවල් (බැටළු ගොවිපල, මාළු ගොවිපල)

 3. වෙළඳපල සහ සිල්ලර වෙළඳාම (වාර්ෂික උත්සවය)

 4. ශාක හා උද්‍යාන (හරිතාගාර)

 5. එක් රැයක් රැඳී සිටීම (කඳවුරු බැඳීම - ගොවිපල නිවාඩු)

 6. විශේෂාංග (සංස්කෘතික කෞතුකාගාරය)

 7. ක්‍රියාකාරකම් (ගොවිපල විවාහ)

අප දන්නා පරිදි මෙම සංකල්පය අප හා නිතර ගැටුනත් සංචාරක අත්දැකීමක් තුල අත්වීඳීම තරමක් වෙනස් අංගයන්ගෙන් සමන්විත වේ. විදේශීය සංචාරකයන් මෙන්ම ලාංකීය අපිත් මෙහි විනෝදාත්මක අවස්ථාවන් අත්විඳීමට නම් තරමක් වෙනස් ආරයකින සිතිය යුතුය. මේ සඳහා නන් දෙසින් කෘෂි සං: මූලික කරගත් නවාතැන් හෝටල් බොහොමයක් දක්නට ලැබෙනවා.  මෙහිදී කිවිය යුතුම කාරනය නම් මෙම වින්දනීය හා අධාපනික වැදගත් කම් රාශියක් එකතුවී තිබීමයි. සබරගමුව, හම්බන්තොට, පොලොන්නරුව, හබරන ප්‍රදේශ රාශියකම කෘෂි සංචාරක හෝටල් තම සේවාව නොකඩව සපයයි. ඔබට ගත වන්නේ පැය කිහිපයක කාලයක් පමණි. පළමු කෘෂි තාක්ෂණ උද්‍යානය මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ගැනෝරුවාහි පිහිටුවන ලදී. දෙවන කෘෂි තාක්‍ෂණ උද්‍යානය බටටා රජයේ ගොවිපොළට යාබදව පිහිටි හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පිහිටුවන ලදි. මෙම කෘෂිකාර්මික ගොවිපලවල, අධි තාක්‍ෂණික සිට කෘෂිකාර්මික කටයුතු සාම්ප්‍රදායික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය දක්වා කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය නරඹන්නන් සඳහා නිරූපණය කෙරේ.  ගොවීන්ට, පාසල් දරුවන්ට සහ සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවට තොරතුරු බෙදා හැරීම කෙරෙහි ද එය දැඩි ලෙස අවධානය යොමු කරයි. අධ්‍යාපන හා පුහුණු යාන්ත්‍රණය, නිර්දේශිත බෝග වර්ග නිරූපණය කිරීම සහ නිවර්තන භෝග වලින් සමන්විත තාක්ෂණයන් බොහොමයකට තොරතුරු සපයයි. 

2018 இல் எஸ். எல்.டி.டி.ஏ புள்ளிவிவர அறிக்கையின்படி, ஸ்ரீக்கு ஐந்து முக்கிய சந்தை ஆதாரங்கள் உள்ளன   இந்திய, ஜெர்மன், சீனா, யுனைடெட் கிண்டோம் மற்றும் ஆஸ்திரேலியா என்று லங்கா. மேலும், 84.8% சதவீதம்   சுற்றுலாப் பயணிகள் இன்பம் மற்றும் விடுமுறையில் 2018 நோக்கங்களுக்காக இலங்கைக்கு வருகை தருகின்றனர். எனவே வேளாண் சுற்றுலா என்று நீங்கள் நினைக்க வேண்டாம் இயற்கையுடன் தங்குவதற்கும் குளிர்விப்பதற்கும் விரும்பும் ஒருவருக்கு நடவடிக்கைகள் சிறந்த விடுமுறை விடுமுறையாகும்  அந்த முதல் 5 வெளிநாட்டு தோழர்களுக்கான வாழ்விடங்கள்? கடந்த இரண்டு கட்டுரைகளில், நாங்கள் பற்றி குறிப்பிட்டோம் வேளாண் சுற்றுலா மற்றும் பிராந்திய நாடுகளைப் பற்றிய பின்னணி மற்றும் முக்கிய கருத்துக்கள்   அவர்களின் கிராமப்புற பொருளாதார மதிப்புகளாக மூச்சடைக்கும் தொழில்.  எனவே இந்த தொடரின் மூன்றாவது கட்டமாக நாம்இலங்கையைப் பற்றி அறிமுகப்படுத்துகின்றன வேளாண் சுற்றுலாவுக்கு வளர்ந்து வரும் தீவுகளில் ஒன்றாகும்.

 இலங்கையில் விவசாயத்தின் நீண்ட வரலாறு உள்ளது, இது 2500 காலப்பகுதியில் உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளத  ஆண்டுகள்.  இதில் பண்டைய நீர்ப்பாசன தொட்டிகளும், தோட்டங்கள் மற்றும் நெல் சாகுபடி முறைகளும் அடங்கும்.

வேளாண் சுற்றுலாப் பயணிகளின் முக்கிய சந்தையால் இது முக்கியமாகப் பாராட்டப்பட்டாலும், இலங்கை ஒரு சிறந்த இடமாகும்  இலங்கையின் உள்ளூர் மக்களின் விவசாயத்தையும் வாழ்க்கை முறையையும் அனுபவிக்க.

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Caption by    :Tashini Kamalka

Designed by : Deeshan Madusanka