US provides IT facility to Lankan farmers

Shirajiv SIRIMANE

The US government is to provide information technology to Sri Lanka farmers.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has joined hands with Ministry of Agriculture to launch this program which would be beneficial for the farmers. Plans are underway to set up four Cyber centers in Sri Lanka which is to be manned by Farmer Associations.

As a follow up to this program the Ministry has decided to develop a Web Portal so that farmers could access market information available from various Ministries and Departments.