Pulicat alias pazhaverkadu is a small beautiful town of Indian state Tamilnadu. Natural beauty, mind captivating birds, traditional buildings, prosperous culture, strong history are the descriptive terms we remember when we hear the name Pulicat. The pride of owning India’s second-largest saltwater lake goes to Pulicat town. It has an eye mesmerising beauty as its located on the seashore of the Chola empire and surrounded by water on four sides. It is 60kms away from Chennai and is marked as the border of states Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Tamilian Palm Tree:
From tamilian’s first book tholkappiyam to all well-known historical books, all of them were written on Palm leaves only. Even before the foundation of paper, ancestral tamilian’s started the usage of palm leaves for writing. From the good old days, itself palm tree is associated with tamilian’s psychological and cultural heritage. Therefore palm is considered as tamilian tree of state Tamilnadu.
Cottage Industry:
All portions of a palm tree are beneficial. From its leaves boxes, pooja baskets, fruit baskets, colorful chocolate boxes, pouches, winnow, hand fan, hats and so on products are produced. These cottage industrial products are exported too.
In Pulicat, palm trees are vastly present thus enhancing the palm leaf cottage industry. People of each and every home here learn the art of making products from Palm leaves, making cottage industry their occupation. People of Pulicat are experts and are very famous for their hand-made colorful Palm leaf products.
Benefits:
A few years back Palm leaf products had a very high demand. There existed no home without palm leaf baskets because food grains stored in the enhanced human health. Also, food grains stored in them were protected from getting spoiled. In the olden days all types of eatables, viands were parceled in palm leaves only. Because of its wide usage, they were in demand which resulted in flourishment of its production and sales.
Thread used to bind flowers to gain their fragrance similarly food grains stored in palm leaf boxes gain a special and unique fragrance.
Today’s position:
Nowadays plastic products have replaced Palm leaf products in our lives. The cottage industry that lights the lives of poor people is losing demand. Only a few interested persons are involved in the production of palm leaf products.
Point Of View By Native Things:
We are creating awareness among people about the harmfulness of using plastic products and the benefits of using natural products through our motto” usage of traditional products” (Pazhaiyana Pugudhal). In this process, we are aiming in enhancing its usage and demand.
Let’s use hand-woven Palm leaf products and protect our environment from plastic pollution.
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