Tea Leaf Collection Ticket Machine
Sri Lanka
The Farmer brings the bag of tea to be weighed to the tea collector/driver, and is then issued a ticket (receipt) for their records. The service provider Smart Metro maintains a database of the farmers, and the farmer name appears on the machine for the receipt when punched in. The farmers can produce the receipt to the factory (at the end of the month) after the tea is sold, to obtain their payment or if the farmer has a bank account the payment is transferred. There is also a mobile app, which has all the same details in the ticket machine database, including farmer bank details and fertiliser use/needs etc. Some tea collectors/factories have a SMS system – where the details of the weight of the tea leaves is sent to the farmer’s phone via SMS.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Rural Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Digital marketing and trading
Digital extension services
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
SMS services / Voice messaging
DS supplier-user category
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
Panilkanda Tea Factory with Smart Metro (Other Tea factories may also use their own versions)
Primary Users
Agribusiness / private company , Ag input dealers , SMEs / agripreneurs
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (limited use)
Number of users or subscribers
Initiative done by Panilkanda Tea Factory for 4 years has now become popular among other Tea Factories. Approx. 200 - 300 farmers are registered with Panilkanda Tea factory through the app, which forms the database for the ticket machine.
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Ranhotikanda (Thalagahawatte) and Viharahena
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes