Photo/File  A wheat farmer inspects her crop. In case of blight or shortage of fertiliser, farmers can now alert each other through ukulima.net, on Internet-enabled phones.

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Farmers can now arrest disease outbreaks on mobile

Posted 11 hours ago

Application developers have turned farmland into playing fields on which they test, not hoes and ploughs, but software that makes work easier for farmers and often extension officers....