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Mobile helps find right price for farmers produce - The Hindu - 5th November, 2009

About 3,000 farmers and 200 scientists are already using this facility now.

 

“Their daily visits encouraged a good rapport among the several dealers which helped us to get the right information,” explains Prof. Vadivel. But how many farmers use computers in villages? True, the use of internet by farmers is meagre. However the mobile phone network has expanded in leaps and bounds. Virtually every farmer has a mobile today.  Those with mobiles can easily access this information. Right now, about 3,000 farmers and 200 scientists are already using mobile-based SMS on commodity and market information.

 

Readers can contact Dr. E. Vadivel, Project officer, e- Extension Centre, Directorate of Extension Education, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore – 641 003, website: www.tnau.ac.in and www.agritech.tnau.ac.in, e-mail: info@tnau.ac.in, phone: 0422-6611383.

 

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