Under the British, the land was part of a large estate with different crops such as tea, pepper and rubber. In 1970, the Indian owner planted sugarcane and established a factory there. When in 1988 Mr. Ganeshaligam, mayor of the capital city Colombo bought this land, the entire sugar process came to an end and the land became barren. There was no new cultivation nor any maintainance of the existing crops, such as pepper, cocoa, etc. In 2006, when the Little Smile Association bought the land, even the houses and roads were damaged and the most valuable trees had been cut down. Parts of the land were regularly affected by fire.

As the first step, some parts have been reforested to prevent soil erosion. Roads and houses were rebuilt and new cultivation was started under organic and fair trade principles, such as ten acres of nutmeg, 20 acres of pepper and 15 acres of cinnamon, 8 acres of vanilla, 3 acres of cloves and 5 acres of tea, are in progress.