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Socio-economic impact of the mobile phone based agricultural extension (Record no. 8848)

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control field G99145
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control field MX-TxCIM
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20171106163750.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-93-83305-23-0
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 893
Personal name Mittal, S.
Miscellaneous information Socioeconomics Program
Field link and sequence number INT3115
Affiliation Mobile phone for agricultural extension: worldwide mAgri innovations and promise for future
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Socio-economic impact of the mobile phone based agricultural extension
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi (India)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. New India Publishing Agency :
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent p. 195-223
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Knowledge and communication is an important resource for agriculture and can contribute substantially to ensure food security and sustainability by creating awareness and skill development through access to information. The initial and most prominent player of knowledge delivery is public sector extension services, which from past few years, are usually criticized for their ineffective targeting, poor reach and the huge administrative cost of delivering information. Since past few years, the drastic increase in mobile penetration even in rural areas has lead to evolution of ICT-based extension services models to disseminate agriculture related information. The overall goal of using the mobile phone-enabled information delivery mechanism is to have inclusive growth by reducing the knowledge gap between large and small farmers and by creating awareness. Thus with this background, this chapters specific objectives apart from identifying potential needs of information and the existing sources, includes the meta analysis of mobile impact studies mainly in Asia and Africa in terms of improving farmers socio-economic conditions by being better connected to extension services, improved access to markets and better agronomic information. The expected impact of different types of information are a) an increase in productivity, through informed decision making about crop choice, seed varieties, agricultural inputs, agronomic practices and plant protection b) a reduction in production costs through the adoption of improved and quality inputs and technologies, and better management practices and c) improved incomes resulting from reduced costs and better price realization for produce. However, the impact of mobiles as a mode of providing information for farming will depend on how mobile networks are able to link the farmers to all the required information in a timely and accurate manner.
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Text of note Socioeconomics Program
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Language note English
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StaffID INT3115
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Collection CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mehar, M.,
Relator term coaut.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Saravanan, R
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Koha item type Reprint
Holdings
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07/10/2017   07/10/2017 Reprint Not Lost     CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 07/10/2017

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