The days of Maha Parakumba Raja Sri Lanka, nicknamed the "Grainhouse of the East", was an oasis of comfort to preserve the lifeblood of the ancients even during great disasters such as Baminithiyasaya. There is hardly a plant that does not bear fruit in that oasis. All over the coastal plain surrounded by the great ocean, palm trees such as coconuts and oil, fertile fields in Rajarat and Giruwapattu, Vannia and Panamat, tea plantations spread across the central mountains, rubber plantations in the valleys of the Kelani River and Kalu River, and the middle country. The widespread cultivation of fertile spice crops is also the lifeline of the agricultural industry in this country.
