Thursday, October 6, 2011

Sewing Seeds with SMS: Assessing Mobile Phones? Role in Agricultural?

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Mobile phones may be one mechanism to increase effectiveness and efficiency for agricultural extension in low-income countries. Agricultural extension, broadly defined as the delivery of information to small-scale farmers, was developed to counteract information asymmetries suffered by farmers with limited access to information sources like landline phones, newspapers, radios and TV programming.

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Source: http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2011/10/06/sewing-seeds-with-sms-assessing-mobile-phones-role-in-agricultural/

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