News:Palms? Exploring smallholder farmers’ use of existing mobile phone farming applications: A study in selected counties in Kenya

We share research findings by Odhiambo F. on smallholder farmers’ use of the existing mobile phone farming applications and to assess the effect of these applications on the farmers farming and marketing experience in Kenya. Two key conclusions can be deduced from the study. First, the study title had asked the question: market in their palms? The second finding was that these mobile phone farming were not effective in providing extension and production information to the smallholder farmers. More