Improving Livelihoods of Rural Farmers through ICT Enabled and eServices Integrated MFIs
Lovely beans that rural Nepal produces in Lamjung District. Coffees are now grown from Dhading, Argakhanchi, Gulmi and Palpa districts also. Small holder growers dominate the producers in Nepal.
"We hear that farmers have started to use e-Commerce to sell their livestocks. Is it a one time phenomena or is scaling up? As co-founder of Nepal's first e-Commerce venture (now runs under Thamel.com) and Nepal's Broadband Policy chief coordinator, e-Commerce provisions have not been formulated tby Government of Nepal till date. Rest assure, in near future, this one time local phenomena will be things of the past, but it is going to require lotta effort and energy "
- Tikajit Rai.
"Now that we have computers in our SFC, while other boys are waisting thier time by engaging into non-productive activities, my son now knows a lot about computer. He actually does better job of using it for Internet, games and other activities. Without Magnus' model and strategy, my son would have to wait I do not know how many years before he would be exposed to ICT."
- Employee at Daunedebi SFC