Tanzania: Mobile Phones Help Farmers Boost Yields

11 September 2014
analysis

Subsistent farmers in rural Tanzania can now use mobile phones to access vital information that helps them increase their harvest. The service has helped bridge the information gap.

Farmers in the remote village of Magole, located 288 km (179 miles) from Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, have been trying in vain to increase food production. Their sweat and toil often failed because they did not have the know-how.

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