Gorseland Primary School

Kudawella School, Nakulugamuwa

The children of Gorseland School visited the local Farmers' Market in Martlesham Square. They wanted to buy vegetables to make a soup. The ingredients required were potatoes, carrots, leeks and onions. Often, when people eat soup they will have a bread roll or slice of bread with it.

 

There were lots of different vegetables to choose from and most of them had been locally grown.

Our local area, Suffolk, produces many of the vegetables that are sold around the country.

Potatoes, apples, beetroot and cabbage have all been grown locally

Here you can see carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and runner beans.

The markets stall also sold mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, celery and lots of other fruits and vegetables.

Here are some of the things we bought.

Green broccoli, white cauliflower, courgettes, onions, turnips, leeks, carrots, potatoes, runner beans, red pepper, aubergines, apples, red chilli peppers, cucumbers, cabbage, yellow tomatoes and courgettes.

Farming in East Anglia

East Anglia is well known as Britain’s breadbasket but its farmland produces far more than cereal crops. It is a major centre for horticulture, cultivating everything from peas and beans to apples, strawberries, salad crops, flowers and shrubs. The region includes Lea Valley, the heart of the country’s glasshouse industry, where one in three of all English cucumbers are grown.
 

Farmers in East Anglia harvest more than half the country’s entire sugar beet crop – mainly in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire - and almost a third of England’s potato crop.
 

Britain’s pig and poultry farms are centred largely on East Anglia. Laying hens produce about 2.2 million eggs every day and our region’s farmers supply a quarter of England’s table chicken.

 

We also have the second largest number of pigs in England, 1.2 million animals on around 1500 farms.

 

Our sheep flocks, beef and dairy herds are small compared with other regions but they are important to the farming ‘balance’ of the region and their grazing plays a vital role in looking after the landscape.

 

Crops grown include winter wheat, winter barley, sugar beet, oil seed rape, winter and spring beans and linseed, although smaller areas of rye and oats can be found in lighter areas along with a variety of vegetables.

Children are at the Vegetable stall and buying vegetables. Leeks, beans, bitter gourd, brinjal, carrots, pumpkins, cabbages, tomatoes, green, capsicum are in the picture. All vegetables has been brought to village stall from “Tangalle” main market. Sri Lankan peoples’ main food is rice. Sri Lankan peoples very much like to have vegetable curry with rice.

This photograph is showing dry fish kept in front of the shop. Kudawella village is the fishing village.

 

There is a small harbour in the village. Most of the children parents’ occupation is fishing. So villagers are drying the fish to sell to people.

 

Fish curry and dry fish curry are their favourite meal.

This is the fruit stall in the village. Pineapple, Banana, mangos, oranges, apple, guava, grapefruits, avocado, Green colour oranges, Wood apple.

All the fruits grow in Sri Lanka except apples and yellow colour orange.

In Sri Lanka we can see most people are growing Banana.

This photograph is showing the King coconuts.

That is one kind of the fruit in Sri Lanka. In side there is some water. People love to drink King coconut.

Every home we can see the king coconut tree here.

This photo is showing wood apple. This very famous fruit in Sri Lanka. It is growing on very big tree. Every where in Sri Lanka we can see that tree. That is used to made wood apple jam, wood apple drink. In Sri Lanka we can by botte of drink and wood apple jam. We export to other countries also those things.

Vegetable and Fruit trade in Sri Lanka

 

Many kind of fruits and vegetables grow in Sri Lanka. But few kinds we import from other countries. We export our fruits and vegetables to other countries too.

 

In Sri Lanka the climate is different from one part to another. So, we can’t grow all the fruit and vegetables in all the parts of Sri Lanka. Some vegetable and fruits grown in up country, some grows in down country. But all the parts of Sri Lanka can get any kind of fruits and vegetables that they like. To make it easier some economic trade centres are established. Farmers grow fruits and vegetables and bring it to the economic trade centres. Then traders from different parts of country go there and buy fruits and vegetables from that place and come back to their places. Then they sell them to sellers to their market. Shops, super market, fair etc.

 

After that we can go there and buy them. Mostly this is happening in towns. And this is long way procedure. By this method, farmers have to sell their products in low price to the economic trade centre. They do not get the sufficient profit. But traders and whole sale traders get the whole profit by selling fruits and vegetables to other traders.

 

When we want to buy fruits and vegetables, we go “Dickwella” town or “Tangalle” town. They are the nearest towns to our village. Everyday we can buy fruits and vegetables from the market. On Saturday there is a big fair in “Dickwella” town. On that day we can buy anything from there. On Wednesday and Sunday there is a fair in Tangalle town’s can go their also.

 

As well as there are some vegetables and fruit stalls in our village. The villagers need not to go towns to buy fruits and vegetables. They can buy them from village stalls. This is the way we buy fruits and vegetables for our need.

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