Gracias por su contribución. Voy a tratar de traducir al Inglés, para una mejor comprehensión.

1. Capacity development and training on the use of ICT tools

2. Implementation of easy applications

3. Collective participation in the media

One of the major difficulties is the national coverage by radio, telephone. Not all rural areas have access to the communication tools.This disables producers in the adoption of new production technologies and in having timely access to the growing markets for better marketing of their products.

Merci Patrice pour votre contribution. Je fais un petit résumé en anglais pour ceux qui ne maitrisent pas le français.

Below - Patrice's message in English.

Information on the price of  products early in the season season  is provided through print media, television and national radio. Community radio stations  relay the information to the producers in the local language.

The local radio stations provide information on training sessions, how much to produce and all information concerning rural development.

We propose that local radio can be used by extension sercvices to share messages on production techniques, post-harvest operations and how to look for funding and commercialization.

 

Thank you Mr. Maru for these reflections you shared with us.

I hope many other will follow from our members throughout the different questions on the forum that will be opened every few days.

For everyone - the list of questions and the day they will open:

1.       According to your experience, how can communication, community media and ICT tools support family farmers in their activities? (open)

2.       Based on concrete experience or evidence, how can ICT tools and communication services engage family farmers in accessing information and exchanging knowledge? (open)

3.       What are the barriers family farmers face when using community media and other ICT tools? (opening tomorrow 26th of September)

4.       What can be done at policy level to promote the use of community media and ICTs, and improve rural communication services? (opening 30th of September)

5.       What are priority actions now and next steps in the future that can be undertaken to promote rural communication policies and services? And How? (opening October 2nd)

Looking forward to read the next contributions in this discussion!

Thank you for your participation. Would it be possible to share a bit more information on your project? How does the tool work? Who supplies the information on the best practices? Are farmers themselves involved in the content development? It would be interesting to learn more about it. You can also share some links with us so we can look up more information. Thanks again.