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Mobile Phones for Agricultural Extension (Hardcover)
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Mobile Phones for Agricultural Extension (Hardcover)
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Mobile phones are revolutionised the communication process and
becoming all-in-one magical device for anytime and anywhere
communication. The last decade has seen a flourish in the number of
mobile based agro-advisory service initiatives in the developing
countries and more are added regularly in some part of the world.
Services that started with farmers help-lines accessed through
landlines and messages (SMS) have evolved slowly to multimodal and
multimedia based delivery of advisory and to m-agriculture
applications for smartphones. In this rapidly changing
m-Agriculture scenario, this book is an attempt to document the
evolution of mobile phone based agro-advisory services around the
world. The content of the book comprises of country s on mobile
phone applications for agricultural extension from Asia, Africa,
Latin America and Europe along with s on global review on
m-agriculture initiatives, content generation process and
socio-economic impact of mobile phone based agro-advisory services.
This book delves into the development of mobile phone based
agro-advisory and their content, delivery mode, business model and
utility and provides an insight into the evolution of mobile phones
as an extension tool in different countries across the globe. The
book will provide valuable insights on m-agriculture initiatives
for agricultural extension around the world to agricultural
students, extension professionals, researchers and policy makers
across the globe both for understanding them and working on them.
The lessons from the m-agriculture initiatives can guide the mode
of implementation and evolution of mobile based advisory services
in agriculture.
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