Connected agriculture: Mobiles help drive efficiency and sustainability in food and agriculture
A new report from Vodacom and Accenture argues that mobile communications can help to meet the challenge of feeding an estimated 9.2 billion people by 2050.The study identifies 12 specific opportunities that could increase agricultural income by around US$138 billion by 2020. These are:
Improving access to financial services
- Mobile payment system
- Micro-insurance system
- Micro-lending platform
- Mobile information platform
- Farmer helpline
- Smart logistics
- Traceability and tracking system
- Mobile management of supplier networks
- Mobile management of distribution networks
- Agricultural trading platform
- Agricultural tendering platform
- Agricultural bartering platform
The report aims to stimulate engagement between mobile operators, governments, NGOs and businesses to realise these opportunities and explore others.
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posted by Peter Ballantyne at Thursday, October 13, 2011
1 Comments:
I totally agree with it that mobiles play an important in every field because your are connected with each other all over the world and you can easily convey the things you need through mobiles.
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