As a solution to the lack of an up-to-date data system, which is the main problem of the program to ensure national food security, the FoofGate mobile phone APP was jointly created by Microsoft, Orel (IT) Company, Information Technology Institute, and Ceylon Electricity Company with the intervention of the Food Safety Division of the Presidential Secretariat. A meeting to inform officers about the application was held today (27) in the auditorium of the district secretariat.

This application is used by the economic development officers, village officers, family health services, agricultural production assistants, and prosperity development officers working in the domains to get information at the domain level and they were informed about the possible problems in its use.

District Planning Director AA Weerakoon, Deputy Director (Planning) Gamini Ekanayake, Assistant, Deputy Directors (Planning), Computer Officers, Economic Development Officers of Divisional Secretariats were present for this program organized by the District Planning Division.