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| Description: | The latest issue of ICT Update magazine has just been published online at http://ictupdate.cta.int with the theme: market information systems. The liberalization of agricultural markets in the late 1980s and early 1990s introduced many new challenges for small-scale farmers. As the government marketing boards closed, producers were left to deal with a range of middlemen who work much closer with the markets. Providing small-scale producers with the same market information would put them in a better position to find the right buyer and negotiate a fair price without having to share their profits with a third party. ICT Update (http://ictupdate.cta.int) is a bimonthly printed bulletin, web magazine, and accompanying email newsletter focusing on the use of information and communication technologies in agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is published in English and French, by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) in Wageningen in |
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| Country (origin): | Netherlands |
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| Species: | maize, cattle, milk, sorghum, wheat, paprika, mango |
| ARD-theme: | plant production horticulture market and trade policies information and documentation trade, markets and marketing commodity markets market information small scale enterprises |
| Commodity: | fruit cereals cattle dairy products |
| Last editing: | 2009-02-18 15:44:24 |