Africa doesn't produce the same amount of goods as other countries due because they aren't updated with the proper technology. In Ethiopia 85% of the population works the land. Recently they developed a multilingual mobile phone based resource centre. This system educates the farmers on the land. The hotline is designed by the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. This system was developed due to its "pull" and "push" factors. "More than 70 percent of users are smallholder farmers."
So how does the mobile phone help farming?
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