Thayaruban.T
Department of Botany, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
Title: Using Traditional faiths & knowledge are secret of Science & Technology by Tamil community of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
Biography
Biography: Thayaruban.T
Abstract
Sri Lanka has been enriched with Traditional Knowledge (TK) on Medicines and Agriculture. After the arrival of western culture, traditional faiths & knowledge are gradually started eroding, because of which farmers now face lots of problems such as difficulty in accessing agriculture, unbearably high treatment costs etc. This paper is going to be remember and document our Inheritance patterns using in agriculture & food safety at Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. It is a qualitative research based on secondary data analysis. Primarily, it is intended to document the faiths & knowledge because existing researches of the country does not provide adequate protection for TK. While this study does not trial the efficacy of these methods, it provides an indication of what methods are being used and therefore a starting point for further researches in Sri Lanka. The findings were classified into Spiritual Faith & Traditional Knowledge included traditional compost, pest control & food preservation methods which are used in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.