Farmer response towards the initial agriculture information dissemination mobile prototype

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7971, Issue , 2013, Pages 264-278

  De Silva, Lasanthi N C ^a   Goonetillake, Jeevani S ^a   Wikramanayake, Gihan N ^a   Ginige, Athula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Agriculture information systems; Crop choosing stage; Farming life cycle; Mobile technology

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CROPS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE;

ACTION RESEARCH; AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FAILURE RATE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84880724030     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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