Palm wine

Palm wine, dem know am by chaw local names, be an alcoholic beverage dem create from de sap of various species of palm trees such as de palmyra, date palms, den coconut palms. Ebe known by chaw names insyd different regions wey ebe common insyd various parts of Africa, de Caribbean, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, den Micronesia.  De word "toddy" dey derive from de Marāṭhi name of de drink, tāḍī (ताडी), from de Sanskrit tāḍa (ताड, ताल) "de palmyra palm".

Palm wine production by smallholders den individual farmers fi promote conservation as palm trees cam turn a source of regular household income wey fi be economically worth more dan de value of timber dem sell.
Names
Der be a variety of regional names give palm wine:

 State / Territory / Region  Name used Algeria  لاقمي lāgmi Bangladesh  তাড়ি taṛi, তাড়ু taṛu, tuak  Benin  sodavi (distilled), sodabe, atan Cambodia  tek tnaot chu (ទឹកត្នោតជូរ) Cameroon  mimbo,Anchimbe – Creating New Names for Common Things in Cameroon English (I-TESL-J) matango, mbuh, palm wine, tumbu liquor, vin de palme, miluh Central America  vino de coyol People's Republic of China 棕榈酒 zōng lǘ jiǔ Democratic Republic of the Congo  malafu ya ngasi (Kikongo), masanga ya mbila (Lingala), vin de palme (French) East Timor  tuaka, tua mutin, dem dey bell brandy tua sabuEquatorial Guineatopé (most widespread name), dem sanso dey bell am bahú insyd de north den mahú insyd de south Gabon  toutou Gambia  singer Ghana  doka, nsafufuo, palm wine, yabra, dεha, tér daññ, Akpeteshi (wen dem further distill am) Guam  tuba (originate from de Philippines) India Toddy insyd English 
கள்ளு kaḷḷu insyd Tamil 
കള്ള് kaḷḷŭ insyd Malayalam 
ಕಳ್ಳು kaḷḷu anaa sendi insyd Kannada 
kali insyd Tulu 
తాటి కల్లు tāṭi kallu insyd Telugu 
Tadi insyd Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar den Maharashtra 
তাড়ি taṛi insyd Bengali 
sur insyd Konkani Tadi insyd Bhojpuri Indonesia  arak or tuak. Insyd Batak region, North Sumatra: lapo tuak. Insyd South Sulawesi (especially insyd Tana Toraja): ballo. Insyd North Sulawesi: saguer Ivory Coast  bandji, koutoukou (wen dem further distill am) Kenya  mnazi (wich dey mean coconut palm insyd Mijikenda) Kiribati  karewe Libya  لاقبي lāgbi ˈlaːɡbi Madagascar  soura Malaysia  nira (Malay for fresh juice obtain from de blossom of de coconut, palm anaa sugar-palm, wich dem fi make into sugar anaa de said palm wine, wich sanso be known as tuak), toddy (English), bahar (Kadazan/Dusun), goribon (Rungus), tuba (Borneo) Maldives  ދޯރާ،ރުކުރާ،މީރާ (dōrā, rukurā, mīrā) Mali  bandji, sibiji, chimichama Marianas  tuba (originate from de Philippines) Mexico  tuba (garnish plus peanuts, originate from de Philippines) Myanmar  ထန်းရည် htan yay Namibia  omulunga, palm-wine Nauru  demangi Nepal  tāri तारि Nigeria  palm-wine, palmy, ukọt nsuñ, mmin efik, emu, oguro, tombo liquor, mmanya ngwo, nkwu enu, nkwu ocha Papua New Guinea  segero, tuak Philippines  tubâ (general term for fermented den unfermented palm sap), lambanóg (distilled coconut sap, sanso be vino de coco, dalisay de coco), laksoy (distilled nipa palm sap, sanso be dalisay de nipa, barik), bahalina anaa bahal (aged tubâ plus mangrove bark extracts), tuhak anaa tubâ sa hidikup (sugar palm wine), tunggang (fishtail palm wine), dalisay (general term give distilled palm liquor) Seychelles  kalou Sierra Leone  poyo, mampama South Africa  ubusulu, injemane Sri Lanka  රා rā (Sinhala), கள்ளு kaḷḷu (Tamil), panam culloo  Tanzania  pómbe (wich dey mean alcohol) anaa tembo Thailand  kache (กะแช่), namtanmao (น้ำตาลเมา) Tunisia  لاقمي lāgmi Tuvalu  kaleve (unfermented), kao (fermented), anaa insyd English, toddy (unfermented), sour toddy (fermented) Vietnam  rượu dừa;

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 Article on Philippine palm wine

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