FarmerNet,

FarmerNet is a mobile SMS, trade support platform which enable village farmers to sell their commodities to different buyers within all over the Sri Lanka. With this project we will be taking technology to the villages. FarmerNet (www.farmer.lk) is a mobile - online trading platform to support small farmers in rural Sri Lanka. It enables SMS text based information uploading to www.farmer.lk site. Farmers and traders can upload their selling or buying information. Working as a 'spot trading platform', FarmerNet automatically checks the matching parties (i.e. sellers and buyers) and inform them via SMS messages to their mobile phones.FarmerNet is a product of Sarvodaya-Fusion (www.fusion.lk). It primarily targets the small farmer beneficiaries supported by micro-finance program of Sarvodaya Economic Enterprise Development Services (SEEDS - www.seeds.lk). Farmernet is supported by eSociety initiative of ICTA. Empowerment of small farmers is the goal of the FarmerNet. The premise of the initiative is to create an efficient marketplace, using information technology to reduce transaction costs. The buyers and sellers can exchange information about produce efficiently while bypassing middlemen. FarmerNet is a culmination of a journey that started by Sarvodaya- Fusion in 2006 with the partnership of volunteers, industry experts, and NGOs.