This is an excellent opportunity for use as a commercial farm, a retirement property, or an eco-project. This coconut estate was designed and cultivated by a professional Australian agriculturist with modern irrigation and fertigation (fertilizer delivery through the irrigation system - requires less fertilizer for the same impact) systems. The trees are planted scientifically with the prescribed distance between the trees to maximize yield and to allow intercropping.
---There is a two-bedroomed modern house on the land which can be used as a weekend getaway. Attached toilet, sitting room, kitted with pantry cupboards etc.
---The estate has multiple superb water sources - a one-acre well, a large agriculture well, a smaller well for drinking water, a smaller lake of about a quarter of an acre and a two perennial streams flowing through the estate.
---The estate also features a 2-acre paddy field - our family has never had to buy paddy from outside - we have planted our own varieties of paddy over the past decade - healthy and organic.
---The estate has multiple fruit trees, planted in an orchard-style setting - jackfruit, Sri Lankan tangerine (narang), guava (pera), banada, papaya, tamarind, breadfruit (del), stone-apple (beli) and many other fruit trees.
---The estate has also been planted with numerous teak and mahogany trees.
---There are multiple pathways and roads within the estate that allow easy access to all the coconut trees at the time of plucking.
---Yield varies seasonally and maximum yield enjoyed was around 25,000 nuts per plucking.
---The estate also has foundation laid upto ground floor level for a second bungalow. This is set within the fruit orchard. This is intended to be the owner's holiday/retirement home.
---The estate boasts of a large warehouse for storing plucked coconut and produce, along with a small living quarters, copra drying hut (cement) and a large pump-house next to the lake. The pump-house contains a massive water irrigation system which was installed by Jinasena Ltd.
---Contains a 5000 sqft. greenhouse used to grow orchids for export.
---Sale price includes 1 recently purchased, TAFE agricultural tractor with trailer and two grass-cutting attachments, and a Kubota tractor for tilling the paddy fields.
---The estate is located within a 2-minute drive from the Nakalagamuwa exit of the Colombo-Kandy highway. At the moment, the estate is a 10-minute drive from the Mirigama interchange. Once the Kadawatha-Mirigama portion of the Colombo-Kandy highway is completed, the estate will be a mere 30-minute drive from Colombo and a 20-minute drive from the Banadaranaike International Airport.