Title: Farmer Messaging : Sri Lanka farmers get mobile phone trade service
Source: LBO.lk
Publisher: Lanka Business Online
Date (published): 23/12/2009
Date (accessed): 27/12/2009
Type of information: article
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
Sri Lanka's top celco Dialog Telekom is offering a trading platform based on short message services (SMS) that can help farmers to sell their produce and create a forward market for agriculture produce, officials said.
"The Dialog TradeNet agricultural trading platform service is offered free of charge to users, but normal call charges and SMS charges will apply," Hans Wijayasuriya, chief executive at Dialog Telekom, said.