East African dairy farmers using mobile phones to record yields

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  • Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)

Smallholder dairy farmers participating in dairy hubs supported by East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) in Kenya and Uganda are set to benefit from an innovative and interactive mobile-based system allowing them to effectively record farm events and gain access to productivity-enhancing information and services. The EADD project (phase II) is implementing a mobile-based system, Ng’ombe Planner, to gather monthly data from a set of farmers, necessary for the project’s monitoring exercise in Kenya and Uganda.

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