By Surabhi Mittal, CIMMYT 
Photo credit: S. Mittal/CIMMYT
A new pilot program is trying to reach farmers in India with information on weather, pests and climate change ? through their mobile phones. CIMMYT launched the ?Dissemination of climate smart agro-advisories to farmers in CCAFS benchmark sites of India? project on 15 August in four villages of the Karnal District in the State of Haryana and in the Vaishali District in the State of Bihar on 1 September. The project is led by CIMMYT?s Surabhi Mittal with IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited as the content partner and Kisan Sanchar as the dissemination and implementing agency.
The project has aims to help farmers clarify information about climatesmart technology; help them adopt technologies that could mitigate their risks due to climate change; and to measure how receiving information on mobile[...]
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