Educating farmers on e-Agriculture

Navagoviya.org Pilot Project was launched recently at Hingurakgoda CIC Farm by Keerthi Kotagama, Managing Director of CIC on the invitation of Wasantha Duggannarala, Navagoviya Project Director, witnessed by over 100 guests from Media and CIC agribusinesses.

Rural farmers are getting ready to go back to school of e-Agriculture with navagoviya.org, which delivers modern agriculture knowledge in Sinhala and Tamil Languages.

Navagoviya Project implemented through Nenasala is a fine example, of how ICTs can be used to improve lives of rural farmers of Sri Lanka. Navagoviya Project implemented by CIC Agribusinesses with ICTA e-SDI partnership assistance. The project aims to develop rural farmers with modern farming knowledge to encourage sustainable agriculture practices in Sri Lanka.

The 587 Nenasala Network established by ICTA in rural communities will become access points for Modern Agriculture Knowledge with the Navagoviya Project. The project produced electronic content on modern Agriculture in Sinhala and Tamil Languages on a curriculum developed by Agriculture Faculty of University of Peradeniya. A group of Telecenter Operators were trained as e Agriculture learning facilitators to introduce Modern Agriculture to rural farmers. Navagoviya aims to assist Rural farmers access highest knowledge sources in Modern Agriculture to develop Agriculture livelyhood economic opportunities in rural communities of Sri Lanka.