The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) and Save the Children in Ethiopia agree to deliver nutrition-sensitive agricultural messages for Ethiopian farmers via a dedicated hotline service. To provide nutrition related information, the two organizations will be using ATA’s 8028 Farmers’ Hotline, which has been dissemination agricultural information, according to the agreement. Launched in February 2014 in four regions, ATA’s 8028 Farmers’ Hotline currently runs on 210 phone lines and is available in five languages. “The 8028 Farmers Hotline is an Interactive Voice Response/Short Message Service (IVR/SMS) system. “The information smallholder farmers getting through the 8028 Farmer’ Hotline is helping them to improve production and productivity,” said Mr. Khalid.

Source: News Business Ethiopia February 01, 2019 04:52 UTC