Mobile phones and market information: Evidence from rural Cambodia

Shimamoto, Daichi; Yamada, Hiroyuki; Gummert, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.10.005

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“…In a developing country context, the literature on information technology and agriculture has focused on how mobile phones can increase information in agricultural markets and potentially lead to improved market efficiency (Aker, 2010;Aker & Fafchamps, 2015;Fafchamps & Minten, 2012;Jensen, 2007;Muto & Yamano, 2009;Shimamoto, Yamada, & Gummert, 2015;Tadesse & Bahiigwa, 2015, Mitra, Mookherjee, Torero, & Visaria, 2018. Aker (2010), Aker and Fafchamps (2015), and Jensen (2007) find that mobile phones reduce consumer and producer price dispersion spatially as well as over time.…”

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Can the Internet improve agricultural production? Evidence from Viet Nam

Kaila

Tarp

2019

Agricultural Economics

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This paper aims to contribute to the growing literature on the potential benefits of the Internet on rural livelihoods. We estimate the relationship between Internet access and agricultural production in rural Viet Nam using a panel dataset from 2008-2012. This is a time span during which Internet access increased substantially and governmentrun and private online outlets providing information about agriculture started to operate. Our findings suggest that Internet access is associated with a 6.8% higher volume of total agricultural output. We find that this result is manifested through more efficient use of fertilizer. Our findings are stronger for younger households. The less developed northern provinces have benefited the most from the arrival of the Internet. The results are weaker in the case of rice, which is related to strong government involvement in rice production and prices. K E Y W O R D Sagriculture, household production, information and communication technology, Viet Nam

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“…While Shimamoto, Yamada, and Gummert () find mobile phones to have a relationship with price levels, they recognize that the effect is not necessarily causal.…”

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Can the Internet improve agricultural production? Evidence from Viet Nam

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Tarp

2019

Agricultural Economics

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“…Given the various means and intensity of information access revealed in Table 3, this finding is no surprise. As guided by Aker [34] and Shimamoto, et al [35], information is a valuable resource and we contend that it makes all the difference for farmers seeking to improve their cost efficiency. Therefore, the decision to adopt is rational as it has economic benefits for farm households.…”

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Rethinking Food Production: Nexus of Mobile Phones and Production Cost Minimization

Mwalupaso

Tian

Geng

2020

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Information and communication technologies are a ready tool for all strata of society and are indeed redefining the way almost everything is done. Mobile phone technology, in particular, plays a vital role in expediting improvement in the efficiency of the household resource through access to information on various available technologies. Can mobile phones improve the cost efficiency of agricultural production? Comprehension of such effect is critical, especially in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. We addressed this topic using cross-sectional data from smallholder maize producers in Zambia. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis was applied to estimate cost efficiency. The results indicate that mobile phone use improves the cost efficiency of maize production significantly and as such, adopters have made a rational decision to adopt mobile phone use for information access. Precisely, we found a 10.2% efficiency gap in favor of users. Nevertheless, if non-users were to adopt mobile phones for agricultural information access, maize production per hectare would increase by 21.38%. Eventually, food production would be increased in an environmentally friendly manner and the price of maize would be set at a competitive price within the region because agricultural inputs would be allocated cost efficiently. Therefore, in an attempt to minimize production cost in food production, this study strongly endorses the use of mobile phones for agricultural information access.

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“…However, the use of mobile phones is subject to various assumptions. The primary ones are that only when search costs are the main reason for inefficiency will farmers benefit, and that information is available and easily accessed (Shimamoto, Yamada, & Gummert, 2015). Fortunately, the potential to improve farmers' welfare and new opportunities to overcome transaction and search costs have been achieved through persistent progress in mobile phone coverage.…”

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Understanding The Purpose and Potential Popularity of Mobile Phone Use in Zambia’s Maize Production

Mwalupaso¹,

Tian²,

Matafwali³

et al. 2019

JAS

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There is a growing use of mobile phones in rural areas on account of its relative inexpensiveness and lack of requirement for an urban environment. As a platform for accessing information through text messages and voice calls, farmers are able to collect agricultural information which may lead to higher productivity due to technology spillover. If the use of mobile phones contributes to the improvement of farmers' productivity, their agricultural output level should increase. In this study, we investigate the adoption of mobile phones to obtain agricultural information and its effect on smallholder maize farmers' production using cross-sectional data from Zambia. Understanding such causal effects is indispensable especially against the background of vision 2030. The propensity score matching (PSM) method was adopted to estimate the average treatment effect of treated of mobile phone adoption in agriculture. We found that the use of mobile phones significantly increases farmers' productivity, by about 30%. If farmers start to adopt mobile phones to collect agricultural information, the total maize output would also increase by 30.36%, which would culminate in feeding two more people per household daily for the whole year. Therefore, we cautiously conclude that mobile phone use in agriculture serves the purpose of contributing to the fight against hunger via enhancing maize production and this is driving its popularity among smallholder farmers in rural Zambia.

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Mobile phones and market information: Evidence from rural Cambodia

Cited by 68 publications

References 5 publications

Can the Internet improve agricultural production? Evidence from Viet Nam

Can the Internet improve agricultural production? Evidence from Viet Nam

Rethinking Food Production: Nexus of Mobile Phones and Production Cost Minimization

Understanding The Purpose and Potential Popularity of Mobile Phone Use in Zambia’s Maize Production

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