Anjit,I have never had a forum to document my work or even share what my company Octagon Data Systems Limited does to support smallholders. The time seems to be here for that now! To start with, I can confidently say that most of what seems evasive in delivering ICTs to smallholders has been nailed by the activities I have been engaged with for the last 15 years, which has seen me be transformed from ICT techie to an agricultural economist and a social entrepreneur at the same time.
What started as a passion to save my father from a cheating clerk of a tea company, has become a solution that has transformed the tea value chain processes at all the layers of the chain. Starting with a technology to weigh tea, we have moved to weighing everything else from smallholders from tea to milk to horticulture, to coffee to everything else! In the process this has ensured that the smallholder producers come together to procure the technology that saves them from the cheating clerks and in the process forward-aggregate their produce for the market, and backward aggregate their orders for inputs procurement. This has created the need for organizational frameworks to manage the activities related to technology and handling of the financial proceeds from the market and paying the downward link to the su.
The choice technology can run on GSM, Bluetooth, or deliver offline data to a processing center through other storage media, while leaving a smallholder farmer with a digital or paper record of what they have delivered to a produce collection center.
We started with the offline storage, but with the coming of GSM and related technologies, we have had to keep pace with those who have come in the market and started doing what we are doing using these technologies.
The outcome of this is that farmers can now aggregate their produce digitally, sell the aggregated produce with better negotiating power with the processors or consumers, get paid better rates for their produce whose payment is digitally processed removing the overheads associated with manual processing and in the process they have had reason to create their own savings and credit cooperatives to manage their payments. Some of the processing companies have found reason to sponsor the technology we sell because they are able to trace the source of the produce hence gain from the Fair Trade. I can therefore say that we have been able to transform various commodity chains and enriched the producers in those chains. Productivity has increased and the confidence of  smallholders assured, which is so critical in any agricultural chain.
Given the savings potential when using the technology, the issue of investment in the digital solution is not a constraint. Farmers feel they better borrow from banks or get the technology from us at a slightly higher price, but get the technology and the peace that comes with owning it as the employees no longer treat them as illiterates.
The collectives that the farmers have created have grown in number with one employing over 600 employees while doing value addition of the farmer produce and so calling for a more serious software solution to manage the member register, payment, produce processing and payroll for the employees. What we have seen is that we have not rested as we move at the same pace as the farmer and market demands creating solutions to emerging needs. The end result is that at the end of this year, we shall have a software solution that is an ERP for agriculture tailored for smallholder producers.
Two of the large tea processors told us that we have managed to ably compete against SAP using our bottom up solution which gains ownership by the smallholder producers. At the moment we are making every aspect of our solution digitally driven. The next challenge shall be to ensure that the training of the operators of the technology is the community themselves. I am therefore soliciting for ownership of this technology by the sector so that we can concentrate on making our business grow.
I can therefore confidently say that, its not just in the west where large farmers can afford the technology. It is also not true that the various elements of the value chain cannot be automated, we have a solution that beats all the odds and are ready to share the success we have gained from agricultural integration to other pro-poor initiatives. Coming from a country that is leading also in mobility solutions, you can be sure that we are very much around with mobility options.
I am ready to demystify technology at any forum and integrate it to any value chain.
_____________________________________________________________________
Kiringai Kamau
WillPower Enterprise Development Limited
Development Consultant - Founder, Knowledge Specialist & Value Chain Analyst
PO Box 35046 00200
Nairobi-Kenya
Tel: +25420-2719733/2728708
Fax: +25420-2724389
Cell: +254-722800986/733375505
Websites:www.willpower.co.ke, http://rural-agriculture.wikispaces.com Office Email: [email protected] 
On Wed, Sep 19,

Anjit, I have never had a forum to document my work or even share what my company Octagon Data Systems Limited does to support smallholders. The time seems to be here for that now! To start with, I can confidently say that most of what seems evasive in delivering ICTs to smallholders has been nailed by the activities I have been engaged with for the last 15 years, which has seen me be transformed from ICT techie to an agricultural economist and a social entrepreneur at the same time. What started as a passion to save my father from a cheating clerk of a tea company, has become a solution that has transformed the tea value chain processes at all the layers of the chain. Starting with a technology to weigh tea, we have moved to weighing everything else from smallholders from tea to milk to horticulture, to coffee to everything else! In the process this has ensured that the smallholder producers come together to procure the technology that saves them from the cheating clerks and in the process forward-aggregate their produce for the market, and backward aggregate their orders for inputs procurement. This has created the need for organizational frameworks to manage the activities related to technology and handling of the financial proceeds from the market and paying the downward link to the su. The choice technology can run on GSM, Bluetooth, or deliver offline data to a processing center through other storage media, while leaving a smallholder farmer with a digital or paper record of what they have delivered to a produce collection center. We started with the offline storage, but with the coming of GSM and related technologies, we have had to keep pace with those who have come in the market and started doing what we are doing using these technologies. The outcome of this is that farmers can now aggregate their produce digitally, sell the aggregated produce with better negotiating power with the processors or consumers, get paid better rates for their produce whose payment is digitally processed removing the overheads associated with manual processing and in the process they have had reason to create their own savings and credit cooperatives to manage their payments. Some of the processing companies have found reason to sponsor the technology we sell because they are able to trace the source of the produce hence gain from the Fair Trade. I can therefore say that we have been able to transform various commodity chains and enriched the producers in those chains. Productivity has increased and the confidence of smallholders assured, which is so critical in any agricultural chain. Given the savings potential when using the technology, the issue of investment in the digital solution is not a constraint. Farmers feel they better borrow from banks or get the technology from us at a slightly higher price, but get the technology and the peace that comes with owning it as the employees no longer treat them as illiterates. The collectives that the farmers have created have grown in number with one employing over 600 employees while doing value addition of the farmer produce and so calling for a more serious software solution to manage the member register, payment, produce processing and payroll for the employees. What we have seen is that we have not rested as we move at the same pace as the farmer and market demands creating solutions to emerging needs. The end result is that at the end of this year, we shall have a software solution that is an ERP for agriculture tailored for smallholder producers. Two of the large tea processors told us that we have managed to ably compete against SAP using our bottom up solution which gains ownership by the smallholder producers. At the moment we are making every aspect of our solution digitally driven. The next challenge shall be to ensure that the training of the operators of the technology is the community themselves. I am therefore soliciting for ownership of this technology by the sector so that we can concentrate on making our business grow. I can therefore confidently say that, its not just in the west where large farmers can afford the technology. It is also not true that the various elements of the value chain cannot be automated, we have a solution that beats all the odds and are ready to share the success we have gained from agricultural integration to other pro-poor initiatives. Coming from a country that is leading also in mobility solutions, you can be sure that we are very much around with mobility options. I am ready to demystify technology at any forum and integrate it to any value chain. _____________________________________________________________________ Kiringai Kamau *WillPower Enterprise Development Limited *Development Consultant - Founder, Knowledge Specialist & Value Chain Analyst PO Box 35046 00200 Nairobi-Kenya Tel: +25420-2719733/2728708 Fax: +25420-2724389 Cell: +254-722800986/733375505 Websites:www.willpower.co.ke , http://rural-agriculture.wikispaces.com Office Email: [email protected] On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:31 PM, wrote: > ** > > Write above this line to reply|Escriba sobre esta línea para > responder|Pour répondre écrivez au-dessus de cette ligne > Dear | Estimado(a) | Cher/Chère: kiringai > > > • New comment *|* Nuevo comentario *|* Nouveau commentaire: *ICT > Innovation and Agricultural Value Chains* > > • Published on *| *Publicado el *|* Publié le: *19/09/2012 - 11:20* > > • *amaru *wrote *| *escribió *|* a écrit: > > * * > > *Dear Colleagues:* > * > > This has been a very interesting discussion with a lot of examples and > issues related to ICT innovations for/by farmers and Service providers. > > Saravanan has drawn attention to a very complex issue when we consider use > of new ICTs in farming, especially of smallholders in the context of > economically developing countries. Most innovations, including those > discussed in this forum, for these farmers are "piecemeal" and offer > solutions to one aspect of a farming problem whether to counterfeit inputs, > market price or weather. > > Large and rich farmers such as in North America, Europe and Australia now > have more complete ICT based solutions for example for dairy production or > grains etc. These may include a myriad of ICTs from GPS based farm > equipment, microprocessor based dairy byres, databases, use of crop models > and simulations, GIS and complex Internet and Cell Phone based interactive > data and information management systems. > > Why is it so? Is it because of the complexity of smallholder farming > systems where a multiple of crops and animals are raised? Is it because > these farmers cannot economically use new ICTs? Is it because there is no > organization to coordinate and integrate all information needed by > smallholders? > > Examining some of these issues indicate that most ICT innovations for > smallholder farmers must first and foremost be designed to be able to solve > "local" problems of these farmers. These may draw upon more "global" > information but they must in some way transform it to becoming "local" > adding value through relevance, usefulness and timeliness to the small > holder who many a times needs a set of solutions as options rather than > "the solution". > > Problems of smallholder participation in agricultural marketing chains and > using ICT innovation to contribute to value addition in such participation > is at the core an issue of "aggregation". Usually farmers and farming > communities need to aggregate at various levels and in different ways, from > around input supplies, managing cropping systems, harvesting, post harvest > and marketing to reap benefits. The same may have to be done to reap > benefits of ICT innovation by integrating all the "piecemeal" innovations > we now have at an appropriate local level. I can cite one potential > example, that of TNAU e-extension centre on which there is a post in this > forum where I see several of these services that can and need to be > integrated to offer value added services at a local level. > > There are other issues that will come in also. For example, for the > resource poor smallholder who is also information poor, who will bear the > start up and maintenance costs for the integrated information services? > Should it be the public sector/government, the farmers > associations/cooperatives, the private sector engaged in marketing etc? > > Regards, > > Ajit > > Ajit Maru, GFAR > > > > > > > > * > > • Read more *|* Leer más *| *Lire la suite: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/forumtopics/question-1-opens-17-sept#commen... > > > > > -- > > • To manage your subscriptions log in: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/en/user/login and then click on > 'Notifications': http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > • Para manejar sus suscribciones, ingrese con su nombre de usuario: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/es/user/login y haga click en > "Notificaciones": http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > • Pour gérer vos abonnements, entrez votre nom d'utilisateur: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/fr/user/login et cliquez sur > «Notifications»: http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > > > View original post: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/mailcomment/redirect/%3C15731.37919.4708.13... > --

An interesting development which will definitely help the seed trade and indeed any input. It would be interesting to know why a 12 digit number...do the digits have a meaning so that multiple products from different vendors can be authenticated by the same MAS using the number coding as the differentiating elements and hence making the algorithm for authentication easier to handle?

Given the plethora of support organizations, this initiative needs to be driven by a focus on sustainability...what measure of this is integrated into the implementation? Kiringai

As happens all the time, the only situation in which ICTs make sense is when their introduction starts from the market end, just like we do in implementing value chain models. If we seek to offer advisory services, the solution should start with what makes the farmer produce acceptable by the consumer and then offer services around that going backwards.

Too much focus has been given to mobile solutions which assume that the infrastructure, knowledge and the ability to navigate through the web of products and services will be easy and possible for farmers. Pro-programmed queries whose response is a short message text could provide the kind of online solution that is needed so that farmers whose eyesight is running off with age can make use of the miniature technologies.

If mobile solutions are not the option, then a telecentre infrastructure may be called upon to bridge the gap. In my view and as noted here, the challenge is:

1. Who will identify the challenges that may pull the farmers to technologically driven information sources?
2. Who will create interest in the farmers so that they can pursue digital knowledge?
3. At what layer of a commodity chain should digital technology be used for farmer reference?
4. What followup mechanism ensures that the farmer uses the technology knowledge disseminated? Do we have experiences that have addressed these issues effectively? Kiringai 

Noted and appreciated...

_____________________________________________________________________ Kiringai Kamau *WillPower Enterprise Development Limited *Development Consultant - Founder, Knowledge Specialist & Value Chain Analyst PO Box 35046 00200 Nairobi-Kenya Tel: +25420-2719733/2728708 Fax: +25420-2724389 Cell: +254-722800986/733375505 Websites:www.willpower.co.ke , http://rural-agriculture.wikispaces.com Office Email: [email protected]

We have used electronic handheld scales which then relay the data via GSM or Bluetooth to mobile storage devices for onward processing in a farmer organization’s data processing facility. The accuracy and tamper proofing perspective in the digital weighing ensures that clerks procuring produce do not cheat illiterate women and youth who deliver produce to the buying/aggregation centre. In our assessment this has been empowering to both women and youth, whether literate or illiterate. Furthermore, since the producer cooperatives using the technology are able to establish consumer outlet shops, women are able to procure items on credit on the basis of their digital weights rather than wait for the pay-day and deductions to be done when everybody gets their pay for the delivered produce. On the same basis, women are able to get cheques paid directly to schools for school fees on the basis of the produce they have delivered to their collective and which is held in the computer systems of the collective. What this has meant is that women and of course their children, have the ability to spend money earned from their sweat , for the household necessities and by taking consumables and household items, including fees on the basis of their produce (on credit) leaving the remainder to the men…many of whom use the money to ‘feel good’! In my view, the technologies that we promote empowers the communities where we have seen incomes exceed $200 per month before dividends are paid at the end of the year for the dairy sector. For tea, we have not been able to do the household economic/financial benefit assessment. We are now linking them to the for produce not marketed jointly reducing the layer from production to market/consumption using a market linkage website and through mobile phones for information, again benefiting those who have been marginalized. BUT of course there are technologies that disenfranchise the women and children, those we do not touch! Regards, Kiringai

_____________________________________________________________________ Kiringai Kamau *WillPower Enterprise Development Limited *Development Consultant - Founder, Knowledge Specialist & Value Chain Analyst PO Box 35046 00200 Nairobi-Kenya Tel: +25420-2719733/2728708 Fax: +25420-2724389 Cell: +254-722800986/733375505 Websites:www.willpower.co.ke , http://rural-agriculture.wikispaces.com Office Email: [email protected]

I have already responded in an earlier mail to most of the issues I would have loved to comment on.... I however read this and felt provoked to respond to some of the issues: * The losses incurred in developing countries are largely due to infrastructural constraints related to poor transport, storage, processing and packaging facilities, in addition to capacity gaps that result in inefficient production, harvesting, processing and transport of food. These are standard value chain functions. Value chain mapping and identification has been touted as the panacea to all sorts of sustainable development models/perspectives in agriculture. Our experience is that there is need for a physical space to support the introduction of a facility that would engage with actors at commodity or service provision level to address these issues. Where investment is needed, the organizational framework needs to be considered keenly. Read by earlier post There should be strong government commitment and support for ICT development in the form of policy incentives, increasing levels of investment in ICT R&D projects, accelerated investment in ICT infrastructure and telecommunication facilities, increase manpower development and skills training in ICT. Most developing countries lack the financial wherewithal to support basic necessities. On a priotized ranking, ICT will come very low. The challenge is not to expect much from the government but p[ropose a PPP that supports the infusion of what the government can supply with what the communities are able to do on their own including mobilizing investment. Public sectors should support ICT to: I would propose that these functions be dealt by PPPs rather than the Public Sector (Government) with the government playing the role that they can be encouraged to play with the most critical being the provision of infrastructure or to link with global partners such as ITU on issues of telecommunication. (1) Reinforce producers in achieving economic, social and ecological sustainability to increase productivity and improve quality; Policies on quality standards need to be introduced through focused extension support through industrial, academic, productive, agronomical, social frameworks (2) Support better terms of trade and organize access to financial services; Vibrant financial sector with government setting up such funds as can promote affordable credit for smallholders and other producers (3) Develop a range of instruments for training, quality management financing, exchange of experience, management, efficiency and sales; Action research initiatives that integrate the community and private sector need to provide the handles for this. There is a risk here of making the government swallow more than it can chew! (4) Increase services used by farmers and other producers; Action research initiatives that integrate the community and private sector need to provide the handles for this. There is a risk here of making the government swallow more than it can chew! (5) Link farmers with public support agencies and private sector buyers; Action research initiatives that integrate the community and private sector need to provide the handles for this. There is a risk here of making the government swallow more than it can chew! (6) Encourage creation of producer organizations to procure high-quality inputs in bulk to reduce costs; Civil society and creation of farmer organizations through capacity building of farmers themselves to create this rather than the government doing it (7) Enhance logistics - public distribution of commodities; Private sector or farmer organizations’ responsibility (8) Use producer organizations to establish marketing partnerships with processors and retailers to promote socially beneficial products and create brands; Farmer organizations themselves backed by private sector or PPP initiatives (9) Create provisions for credit in conjunction public and private sector lender; Savings and Credit Cooperatives do a very good job here, let the farmers do it themselves. You risk creating dependency that will be hurtful in the long run (10) Enhance public R&D and production to develop socially beneficial inputs to production R&D in agriculture is indeed a public good and the learning and research organizations need to be supported but they should also try and limit over-reliance on governments. Global funds now exist that promote innovation, let the R&D initiatives sell their innovation for supportive initiatives (11) Enhance extension services or technical assistance to producers in farming practices (training, information dissemination) This should be participatory as much as possible and be result oriented. Too much free extension has been the cause of slow adoption of technologies and new approaches to value chain engagement (12) Promote infrastructure development (public infrastructure - roads, storage facilities); Purely government’s yes but storage is private sector business…see the model I circulated on farmer organization modeling at VACID Africa (13) Promote public distribution of commodities - partnerships between public sector and producer groups/NGOs to jointly finance and maintain roads, storage facilities; Purely private sector business…see the model I circulated on farmer organization modeling at VACID Africa (14) Enhance information services development of MIS to integrate government statistics agencies with private producer associations, use of IT to distribute market information; Purely private sector business…see the model I circulated on farmer organization modeling at VACID Africa (15) Develop and enforce public standards and regulations on food safety inspection and monitoring to manage quality and food safety in conjunction with government and producer groups; Purely government through a responsive standards body with the production infrastructure being private sector/Producer organization owned…see the model I circulated on farmer organization modeling at VACID Africa (16) Develop coordination mechanisms to ensure healthy competition and market exchanges. Let the government meddle in what should be purely market forces….there may be exceptions depending on how organized the markets are * On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:00 AM, wrote: > ** > > Write above this line to reply|Escriba sobre esta línea para > responder|Pour répondre écrivez au-dessus de cette ligne > Dear | Estimado(a) | Cher/Chère: kiringai > > > • New comment *|* Nuevo comentario *|* Nouveau commentaire: *Role of > Public Sector* > > • Published on *| *Publicado el *|* Publié le: *19/11/2012 - 00:54* > > • *fatimalorine *wrote *| *escribió *|* a écrit: > > * * > > * * > * > > The losses incurred in developing countries are largely due to > infrastructural constraints related to poor transport, storage, processing > and packaging facilities, in addition to capacity gaps that result in > inefficient production, harvesting, processing and transport of food. > > There should be strong government commitment and support for ICT > development in the form of policy incentives, increasing levels of > investment in ICT R&D projects, accelerated investment in ICT > infrastructure and telecommunication facilities, increase manpower > development and skills training in ICT. > > Public sectors should support ICT to: > > (1) Reinforce producers in achieving economic, social and ecological > sustainability to increase productivity and improve quality; > > (2) Support better terms of trade and organize access to financial > services; > > (3) Develop a range of instruments for training, quality management > financing, exchange of experience, management, efficiency and sales; > > (4) Increase services used by farmers and other producers; > > (5) Link farmers with public support agencies and private sector buyers; > > (6) Encourage creation of producer organizations to procure high-quality > inputs in bulk to reduce costs; > > (7) Enhance logistics - public distribution of commodities; > > (8) Use producer organizations to establish marketing partnerships with > processors and retailers to promote socially beneficial products and create > brands; > > (9) Create provisions for credit in conjunction public and private sector > lender; > > (10) Enhance public R&D and production to develop socially beneficial > inputs to production > > (11) Enhance extension services or technical assistance to producers in > farming practices (training, information dissemination) > > (12) Promote infrastructure development (public infrastructure - roads, > storage facilities); > > (13) Promote public distribution of commodities - partnerships between > public sector and producer groups/NGOs to jointly finance and maintain > roads, storage facilities; > > (14) Enhance information services development of MIS to integrate > government statistics agencies with private producer associations, use of > IT to distribute market information; > > (15) Develop and enforce public standards and regulations on food safety > inspection and monitoring to manage quality and food safety in conjunction > with government and producer groups; > > (16) Develop coordination mechanisms to ensure healthy competition and > market exchanges. > > * > > • Read more *|* Leer más *| *Lire la suite: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/forumtopics/question-3-opens-19-nov#comment... > > > > > -- > > • To manage your subscriptions log in: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/en/user/login and then click on > 'Notifications': http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > • Para manejar sus suscribciones, ingrese con su nombre de usuario: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/es/user/login y haga click en > "Notificaciones": http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > • Pour gérer vos abonnements, entrez votre nom d'utilisateur: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/fr/user/login et cliquez sur > «Notifications»: http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > > > View original post: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/mailcomment/redirect/%3C15731.39214.5086.13... > -- _____________________________________________________________________ Kiringai Kamau *WillPower Enterprise Development Limited *Development Consultant - Founder, Knowledge Specialist & Value Chain Analyst PO Box 35046 00200 Nairobi-Kenya Tel: +25420-2719733/2728708 Fax: +25420-2724389 Cell: +254-722800986/733375505 Websites:www.willpower.co.ke , http://rural-agriculture.wikispaces.com Office Email: [email protected]

We are not so WiFi ourselves but are bluetooth! My name is Kiringai Kamau from Kenya. I promote the integration of ICTs to agriculture in Eastern Africa. I have been working mainly in the tea and dairy sectors to capture data in the field using rechargeable batteries into digital weighing scales that we have been developing and upgrading through a collaboration with an India based company, Applied Data Logix. Our technologies are available at www.octagon.co.ke and we create value chain linked efforts through community aggregation centres that are based in farmer organized produce centres. I had to go back to school and change my area of focus from ICT to agriculture, with a focus on agricultural extension through formation of collectives. The data is captured using digital scales that are initially fed with farmer records at the farmer collective's computer. Farmer records only contain names and their numbers, nothing on produce data. When the collection process starts the scale weighs the produce, the weigh it captured and stored on the scale, display of the weighment is displayed on a remote display, a receipt is printed for farmer record---which is not necessary but is needed to create confidence, the scale is delivered to the office to download the data, which could be relayed to the collective action's computers/servers on GPRS/GSM, but due to infrastructure constraints in WiMax communication we provide for the duo benefit of using the data download from the scale. The data is aggregated per month and payment done in like manner. It creates confidence, promotes creation of collectives and investment among smallholder farmers. We have seen farmers who never had an income earn as much as $200 a month and the direct employment generation at the particularly collective now stands at 600 with an MBA as a manager of the collective. We now promote the use of the technology in all sectors and are now taking its operations to any field data capture work. Our software to manage the data from the scales has now evolved to become an ERP (almost)... The foregoing can be used in any M&E set-up and can be integrated into any cloud solution, not necessarily onto our own emerging ERP. We are not spending more time creating farmer organization and training programmes on the same as you can see at http://rural-agriculture.wikispaces.com Join us and create an Aquaculture, Value Addition, Agribusiness and Knowledge (AVAAK) Centre for which we are busy building a community of practise around what people are doing. You are invited to be part of our growing network... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM, wrote: > ** > > Write above this line to reply|Escriba sobre esta línea para > responder|Pour répondre écrivez au-dessus de cette ligne > Dear | Estimado(a) | Cher/Chère: kiringai > > > • New comment *|* Nuevo comentario *|* Nouveau commentaire: *Cost > effectivenessof these Data Collections Systems_WOUGNET* > > • Published on *| *Publicado el *|* Publié le: *18/06/2012 - 10:17* > > • *mowiny *wrote *| *escribió *|* a écrit: > > * * > > *Apart from the text Messaging Systems which may be a little bit less > costly and appropriate for rural communities for data collection,what other > cheaper tools are their for organisations wanting to capture data from the > field in rural communities. I have seen many posts about the Ipods, Iphones > and ODK systems etc, how cheap and relevant are these tools and what kind > of data do they capture anyway?.* > * > > I still have not adequately understood what appropriate tools are used to > capture data in remote locations,how and what kind of data. Somebody should > help me reply to this post. > > Moses > > Women of Uganda Network > > * > > • Read more *|* Leer más *| *Lire la suite: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/forumtopics/question-1-icts-collecting-agri... > > > > > -- > > • To manage your subscriptions log in: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/en/user/login and then click on > 'Notifications': http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > • Para manejar sus suscribciones, ingrese con su nombre de usuario: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/es/user/login y haga click en > "Notificaciones": http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > • Pour gérer vos abonnements, entrez votre nom d'utilisateur: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/fr/user/login et cliquez sur > «Notifications»: http://www.e-agriculture.org/user/15731/notifications > > > > View original post: > http://www.e-agriculture.org/mailcomment/redirect/%3C15731.36727.4206.13... > -- _____________________________________________________________________ Kiringai Kamau VACID Africa Institute - A Cisco Entrepreneur Institute Training Center Institute Programme Manager, Knowledge Specialist & Value Chain Analyst PO Box 35046 00200 Nairobi-Kenya Tel: +25420-2719733/2728708 Fax: +25420-2724389 Cell: +254-722800986/733375505 Websites:www.vacidafrica.or.ke,www.kenyaagriculture.or.ke, www.kenyagateway.or.ke