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...
Main Authors: | Prince Maxwell Etwire, Saaka Buah, Mathieu Ouédraogo, Robert Zougmoré, Samuel Tetteh Partey, Edward Martey, Sidzabda Djibril Dayamba, Jules Bayala |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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Series: | Agriculture & Food Security |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40066-016-0088-y |
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