Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers
This study estimates the benefits that Indian farmers derive from market and weather information delivered to their mobile phones by a commercial service called Reuters Market Light (RML). We conduct a controlled randomized experiment in 100 villages of Maharashtra. Treated farmers associate RML inf...
Main Authors: | Fafchamps, Marcel, Minten, Bart |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19077 |
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