Dear Andreas,
Thank you very much for your congratulation and mail about our network meeting. We need to expand our network with more friends who are really interested to use and promote SRI method in their working areas. We need to activate our network for output oriented work. In past some weeks many friends are showing their interest to become members of SRI network, but many of them are not regular users of email and internet. So we also need to think about association/society type networking among interested members/professional. We are working to organize such working group in eastern region of Nepal soon. We can set up similar working group for expand SRI in whole Nepal. What is your thinking towards this subject?
We can organize network meeting as soon as possible, because normal rice season is coming very near. But we need to finalize certain agenda, why we are going to meet? Who are going to participate in this meeting? If we are going to meet only for experience sharing, it will better to utilize our present email network. Because for any gathering we need some money, and money is always one constraint for any meeting. Last year we organized one days experience sharing workshop on SRI at Biratnagar. I informed every SRI network members about that gathering but no one responed about participation. That gathering was very successful regarding participation and its output than after. SRI methods is going to spreading day by day and more people are going to involve in this movement.
At present we have several beautiful SRI field of early rice and hundreds of new farmers are going to familiar/participant in coming season. Soon we are going to start radio program through FM radio on SRI method from Biratnagar. I hope it will increase our new friends from many districts of eastern Nepal. But our joint venture will yield more, so we need to develop strategy plan with proactive network for the promotion of SRI in Nepal. If we can organize fruitful meeting I am ready to participate in any date. More in next mail.
with regards
Rajendra Uprety
DADO Morang, Biratnagar.
Phone: 021-521358/526568 (Office)
: 021-525054 (Residence)
----- Original Message -----From: Andreas JennySent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 3:14 PMSubject: Re: [sri-nepal] SRI promotion project win Nepal development Marketplace 2005 award.Dear Uprety jyu,congratulations to you and your SRI Project in succeeding with your proposal. Hope this will give a big boost to the breakthrough efforts for SRI in Nepal. I am deligted for you!Another issue. You will remember our earlier attempt to hold a SRI network meeting. What would be a good time for a meeting? What about end of June?To the others in the network:please also share your thoughts on a potential meeting. Is there enough interest in the network for holding one?Regards,Andreas Jenny