Forward Plan

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 7^th to 11^th we have planed below activities. These campaigns will be in Nuwara Eliya area and we have chosen these villages at the initial stage.

කඳපොල ,මාගස්තොට, බ්ලැක් පූල්, සීතාඑළිය, පලාගොල්ල, නානුඔය, බොරලන්ද, හාවාඑළිය, ජයවර්ධනපුර, ටොප්ස්පාස්, පිදුරුතලාගල, ශාන්තිපුර,   බොපතතලාව

Activity plan with the schedule dates;

1^st day we will be covering at least 5 villages with Jayantha Ayya’s lead. This day we will be sharing information individually and will identify the most active person within the village. So that we will request him to arrange us small group discussion or awareness campaign collecting some people.  At the same time we will be taking some personal surveys within these villages.

2^nd Day Jayantha Ayya will not be available, So we will use Jayalath’s Contact on the second day and will visit 4 to 5 village to do the individual and group surveys. At the same time we will be visiting the trades, who recommended by jayalath. Evening will be visiting telecenter and meet manoj and hope to built good relationship with Jayalath and manoj since these 2 are not coordinating very well. Will get Manoj’s help for 3rd day work and his contacts access for our program.

3^rd day, we will be having few awareness campaign according to the feed back we are going to receive from 1st day and 2nd day visits. If chosen active person get us t least 20++ participants we will conduct the Campaigns. Also we will visit Bopaththalawa and Shanthipura to check how pervious campaign farmers doing and offer their password and username to use the system.

4^th Day we will use Thilak’s Contacts (SEEDS EPO) to visit buyers and the NE Buyer association for an awareness program. Also on the same day we will be visiting long distance villages for individual Surveys and awareness programs.

5^th day, If there are still pending work, we will be staying on this day. If not 4^th night we will be traveling to Colombo.

Main Goals:

• Add at least 50 Traders with good awareness about the system
• Add another 50 farmers to the system
• Meet the in charge at the Buyers Association
• At least 3 awraness campaigns to be conducted
• Fill out at lest 50-100 Survay form and some personal interviews record on a camera.
• Find out following links and work on it real time;
  Gunadasa sell to –> Ajith
  Saman buy from –> Aakmon
  So that we will add these two parties and will ask them to give a free trial trade transaction on the system.