An assessment of mobile phone-based dissemination of weather and market information in the Upper West Region of Ghana

An assessment of mobile phone-based dissemination of weather and market information in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Abstract Background The rapid growth of mobile phones in Ghana has opened up the possibility of delivering timely and useful weather and market information to farmers at costs lower than traditional agricultural extension services. In this paper, we assess the usefulness, constraints, and factors li...

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Main Authors: Prince Maxwell Etwire, Saaka Buah, Mathieu Ouédraogo, Robert Zougmoré, Samuel Tetteh Partey, Edward Martey, Sidzabda Djibril Dayamba, Jules Bayala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Agriculture & Food Security
Subjects:
Agricultural extension
Binary logit
Esoko
Ghana
Mobile phone
Weather and market information
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40066-016-0088-y

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