http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/03/05/news36.asp

Nagesvaran’s dream comes true
When 43-year-old Nagesvaran finally returned to his village of Mangalaaru
South, Mullaitivu in June 2011 with his wife Vasanthaleela and five children
after spending two years in Menik Farm, he found that his house was partially
destroyed and his land barren.
A full time paddy farmer before he was displaced, Nagesvaran had no income
and no means to resume cultivation in the five acres of abandoned paddy after
his resettlement. However, he was able to begin a new chapter in his life after
becoming a beneficiary of the FAO seed paddy project for resettling families in
Mullaitivu. FAO's seed paddy programme during the Maha 2011/12 season was funded
by the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and USAID, with the Agriculture,
Land, Livestock and Irrigation Ministry of the Northern Province as the key
implementing partners.
Nagesvaran received 15 bushels of seed paddy from FAO in November 2011, along
with some agricultural tools including tarpaulin sheets, a bush knife, a mammoty
and a rake. He has just harvested his first crop in several years and managed to
sell 120 bags of paddy while reserving 20 for consumption. Moreover, he
cultivated ground nut in a half-acre patch, for which the ground nut was also
granted by FAO under separate funding from the Kingdom of Norway.
Nagesvaran's dream is to rebuild his house through a loan and repay it by the
income generated through rice and ground nut harvests.