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Do Farmers Really Want to be Paid in Mobile Money?
August 30, 2017 Editor 0
Do farmers really want to be paid in mobile money? To answer this question, I’ll ask you to first entertain a brief thought experiment. Imagine that your employer told you that next pay period, your company will start paying you in Bitcoin. How would you react? Sure you’ve heard about Bitcoin, but you have lots […]
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4 Tips on How to Engage Farmers Using Communication Technologies
August 10, 2015 Editor 0
The focus of the ICTforAg conference session, “The Five Sexy Tools for Food Tech” was an analysis of how to use some simple tech in an effective way. I learned some great tips on how to better utilize the Internet, SMS, voice tools, and analytics in projects. The most important tool listed was people. It’s […]
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Startup operations and problems of honey bee entrepreneurs: experience from India
March 18, 2013 Editor 0
Startup operations and problems of honey bee entrepreneurs: experience from India Khushdeep Dharni; Deepak Goel International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2013) pp. 332 – 348 Present study is an attempt to study the profile and start up operations of the honey bee entrepreneurs in Punjab. Findings of the study […]
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Rural youth seek greener pastures in the city, but farming could get hot
February 17, 2013 Editor 0
share Encouraging youth to pursue farming may be the answer to both unemployment issues and fading crop yields. Photo: Gates Foundation (Flickr) Youth Skills Even on the farm, it pays to be young, but every year, young people are “escaping” their hometown rural communities to seek the “greener pastures” of city life. Meanwhile, global buyers […]
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From Subsistence to Entrepreneurship
February 14, 2013 Editor 0
From Next Billion Even on the farm, it pays to be young, but every year, young people are “escaping” their hometown rural communities to seek the “greener pastures” of city life. Meanwhile, global buyers of commodities such as coffee and cocoa beans worry about the aging farming workforce. In some areas, such as the Ashanti, […]
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Climate data ‘has helped African farmers boost production’
December 31, 2012 Editor 0
A knowledge-exchange programme has helped to protect African people from extreme weather and increase harvests, an initiative has found Go to Source
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