Hence, we have decided to team up with our partners to ensure delivery of important and up-to-date livestock and COVID-19 information to our smallholder farmers using 8028 farmers toll-free hotline services in a way they can easily access it.” ATA CEO Khalid Bomba said. Ethio Telecom has been always our partner in supporting crop producing smallholder farmers using the 8028 Farmers’ hotline service. So far, the 8028 Farmers’ hotline has received approximately 46.5 million calls from smallholder farmers that has been provided by Ethio Telecom as a toll-free service. The 8028 Farmers’ Hotline livestock is an additional advisory service launched to provide necessary information in four major livestock categories: Dairy, fattening (Cattle and small ruminant), Apiculture, and poultry (small scale commercial poultry and Improved household Poultry). With this in mind, we have teamed up with ATA’s 8028 Farmers Hotline Project team to deliver best ways of maintaining one’s own health as well as keeping the community safe from COVID-19”.

Source: Ethiopian News December 30, 2020 09:56 UTC