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		<title>FarmerNet: Beyond 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FarmerNet project donor cycle ended in December 2010. Yet Fusion in collaboration with Strategic partners: SEEDS, ICTA, and Sabre Technologies are moving forward in 2011 to popularize the system with in rural farmer and trader communities. The strategy for 2011, is to focus on clusters. Up to 2010, Fusion focused on mass scale awareness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=208&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FarmerNet: featured in &#8220;Lankadeepa&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FarmerNet was featured in this edition of Lankadeepa on March 13, 2010. This article captures the awareness program Fusion did with 200+ farmers and traders in Welimada, which was coordinated by SEEDS.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=205&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we truely serving him / her?</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/are-we-truely-serving-him-her/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes we have launched it. But it is only a prototype. Not a final product. FarmerNet is only a Prototype at this stage. But we notice different emerging trends. People getting excited are ICT4D activists, Researchers and Donors, not the actual target community; rural farmer and small trader. In a recent presentation at CABI Global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=180&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farmernet වියාපෘති එළිදැක්ම</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/farmernet-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b4%e0%b7%98%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%92-%e0%b6%91%e0%b7%85%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[අන්තර්ජාලය හා ජංගම දුරකතනය ඔස්සේ ගොවි මහතුන් සහ වෙළද මහතුන් මුණගස්වන farmernet නවතම සේවා පද්ධතිය 2009 සැප්තැමිබර් 11 දින නුවරඑළිය ගල්පාලම ගම්මානයේදි එළි දැක්වේ. නුවරඑළිය ගමක ගොවි මහතකු තමා ලග ඇති එළවළු තොගය පිළිබඳ විස්තරය සිය ජංගම දුරකතනය ඹස්සේ SMS කෙටි පණිවුඩයක් මගින් 0115 512 512 ඔස්සේ www.farmer.lk වෙබි අඩවියට තොරතුරු ඇතුලත් කරයි, එසැනකින් එම [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=155&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the field</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/lessons-from-the-field/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following were the key observations from last week&#8217;s 4 day long campaign carried out at 8+ villages in Nuwara Eliya district. Young farmers are very encouraging (they are familiar with SMS) We have clearly noticed that, young farmers (who have just stepped to the farming field) are well familiar with Mobile phones, SMS and computers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=118&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Day of NE Campaign</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/final-day-of-ne-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date 10th July, 2009, We got up little late today since SEEDS Thilak has gone to Colombo, Jayalath was busy with his program. So we stayed relax till 7AM, and had a team chat. Since we have smoothly completed most of the targets this morning we have checked what we have missed during last few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=144&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 03</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/day-03/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date 9th July 2009, we got up early morning and get ready to be at NE District Center (DS) by around 8.15AM. Since yesterday we experienced that Van need push to start, with all fedup faces we walk to the van, nothing have changed it need push to start, so we have done the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=142&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 02 of the NE Campaign</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/day-02-of-the-ne-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date 8th July 2009, we all got up at around 6AM and it was really cold with foggy.  We all get ready by 8AM get on to Van to go to SEEDS. Just as I thot the vehicle is very Old one and it did not start, non of the team members happy about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=139&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1st Date of the NE second Campaign.</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/1st-date-of-the-ne-second-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date was 7th July 2009, I was getting ready for this journey nearly 2 weeks ago, and this time it was not so easy since there were many task due to be completed. Complete Farmernet Technical part (hosting, Domain name, etc..) Integrate SMS gateway with the system Check the each part of the online system [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=134&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 &#8211; 11th July &#8211; activity plan</title>
		<link>http://farmernet.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/7-11th-july-activity-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following are next week activity report for the farmernet project. Since we have completed the technical side of the Farmernet project, now we are going to deeply involve with the awareness programs. Therefore from July 7th to 11th we have planed below activities. These campaigns will be in Nuwara Eliya area and we have chosen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmernet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8226833&amp;post=115&amp;subd=farmernet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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