Experiment using a commercial service called Reuters Market Lights. Market, weather and other information provided to farmers by mobile phones resulted in no statistically significant average treatment effect on the prices received by farmers, crop losses resulting from rainstorms, or the likelihood of changing crop varieties and cultivation practices.
Zanello, Giacomo (author), Shankar, Bhavani (author), and Srinivasan, C.S. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012-04
Published:
Ghana
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00950
Notes:
Paper presented at the 86th annual conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, April 16-18, 2012. 23 pages.
