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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fafchamps, Marcel, Minten, Bart
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19077