Farmers in the Tanzania, who constitute about 75 per cent of the workforce, will reap more benefits from use of cellular phones only if experts can design appropriate software to help users access information cheaply. ICT experts are of the opinion that cellular phones fitted with special software to enable it…

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Farmers will from now get fertilisers and seed allocation through their mobile phones, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has said. Adesina made this known on Sunday in Abuja while fielding questions at a News Agency of Nigeria forum, where he said the strategy was couched in the new fertilisers voucher scheme.The minister said the old system whereby government bought and distributed fertilisers was laden with corruption and inefficiency and also led to…

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BIID is very pleased to announce that the e-Krishok campaign has featured on the BBC News Service and the BBC Bangla service on this March 7^th and March 12^th respectively. In the last few months, e-Krishok has grown to become one the very best…

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Navagoviya - ICT for Modern Agriculture Project is a Public, Private Community Collaborative in Sri Lanka to develop farmers, providing local language e learning courses in modern Agriculture. The project aims to develop new farmers who would popularize modern farming knowledge in rural communities and encourage sustainable agriculture practices using appropriate technology and practices.

As a Telecenter based e-Agriculture… Continue