How the Internet enables farmers to comprehend climate

Climate information access by farmers is insufficient because their access hasn't been optimized. That is the result of a collaborative study by Australian researchers on climate change and its effects on farmers with small fields in Indonesia.

"Compared to Australia's farmers, the effects of climate change are similar, mainly draughts. However there is a significant difference, which is that Australian farmers can access weather forecast information through the internet," said Catherine Tulloh, a climate change researcher from Australia Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARE).

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Farmers in Indonesia surf the Internet

In Indonesia, an Agency has launched a cyber-extension program to facilitate guidance counselling for farmers via the Internet.

The article informs that this is part of an advanced program. Agricultural extension through the cyber extension program is counselling by using the Internet. Counselling can be carried out at the office, but farmers involved in the program can learn from their own villages

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