{"id":3601,"date":"2011-05-17T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:02","slug":"old-cell-phones-help-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/old-cell-phones-help-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Cell Phones Help Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farmer.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1037\" title=\"farmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farmer.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1037 lazyload\" title=\"farmer\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farmer.gif\"><\/a>Farmers in the developing world are being helped by the old cell phone.&nbsp; Even in hard to reach places in developing countries, the humble old cell phone is still relatively ubiquitous \u2013 and that fact could be used to spread information that can help people to help themselves.&nbsp; A group from the University of Illinois in the United States has created a series of videos that shows how easily information can be sent via used cell phones.&nbsp; This will help those in developing nations to improve their lives in simple and achievable ways, one example being a video that teaches farmers how to create insecticide just by using seeds from a neem tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a dramatic revolution in the way that we can share information,\u201d notes Barry Pittendrigh from the University of Illinois.&nbsp; \u201cAnd that\u2019s come about both through the internet and through the dramatic increase in the use of cell phones, especially in developing countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New and old cell phones are spreading like wildfire throughout the developing world, and the increasing sophistication of such devices is only a boon to enable the spread of information to those who need it the most.&nbsp; \u201cWe discovered that many farmers had cell phones that would play video clips,\u201d says Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, a crop scientist from Purdue University.&nbsp; \u201cWe thought, \u201cOkay, can we use those cell phones as a way to communicate this visual information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting the information across to them is a little difficult because some of them cannot read,\u201d says the University of Illinois\u2019 Tolulope Agunbiade.&nbsp; \u201cBut with the animations, it\u2019s easy to get the information across to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the developing world are being helped by the old cell phone.  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