Using mobile technology to comprehend the effect potential of agricultural intercessions
The close to universal penetration of cell phones among smallholder farmers in creating nations have enabled an incredible new tool for apportioning agricultural counsel to ranchers. Low acquisition and marginal costs make digital extension adaptable easily when contrasted with conventional in-person expansion practices.
A new paper co-wrote by Nobel Prize champ and Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) co-founder Michael Kremer and his partners Raissa Fabregas (University of Texas) and Frank Schilbach (MIT), published today in Science, shows that practices suggested through digital expansion are received at rates that contrast well and those embraced through the course of customary in-person extension practices, and at altogether lower cost.
The paper accentuates the resear...