The ASHA awareness camp at Karunabai Block was held in the
conference hall of BDO office, Karunabari today on dated 12th
July 2005 under the presidentship of Mr. Radhika Pegu ADO , Laluk at 12AM.
At the
outset of the awareness camp, Sri Japan Dutta CICO Karunabari briefed about
the aims and objectives of the Awareness camp to the gathering and
invitees. Smti Jhuma Neog CICO , Karunabari described elaborately about
ASHA project and its various advantages and the membership types with
their respective facilities. Sri Dibyajit Dutta DIO (NIC), Lakhimpur in
his keynote address described the various inherent scopes of ASHA portals
for our farmers to overcome the various obstacles faced by them in day to
day life . He invited all SHGs, PPS, cultivators to improve their technical
skill in today’s
completive and global markets and become modern & sophisticated farmers
otherwise they will be continuously
facing
similar exploitation from middleman and can never improve their economic
condition inspite of their hard labour . He encouraged the farmers to
concentrate on quality product aiming for the premium markets and avail the
various schemes/ training etc offered by Govt. Sri Mohendra Phukan SDAO Agri
cited some practical example faced by our farmers and how such problems may
be overcome with the help of ASHA portals. He advised all farmers to become
familiar with INTENET and utilize it to the fullest.
A nos of farmers spoke about various problems faced by them . An educated
floriculturist enquired if there would be any provision in ASHA for
e-commerce for his imported flori-product and any scope for credit card
transaction to access global market. One farmer enquired that as they have
been facing spreading of unknown virus and affecting particular crops while
multi-cropping , if any facility is available to solve such problem. One
farmer enquired about the availability of reliable sources to procure
improved / hybrid seeds as most of the time they found that seeds procured
from shops are spurious. The meeting ended with thanks from the chair.
Total 56 nos of representative of PPS, SHG or farmers attended the meeting
and 13 nos VLEW attended the camp and later, they were given demonstration
on ASFAC portal in the CIC Karunabari. CIC Operator
–Lakhimpur, Manob
Borah and CICO- Nowboicha Smti Popi Borah helped the farmers to surf the
ASFAC portal. Total nos of
registration
for the ASHA was 21 nos
