Tanzania’s smallholder farmers struggle to benefit from digital agriculture

Al Jazeera · Felister Richard ·

Poor training and delayed responses leave farmers struggling to access useful market information.

Poor training and delayed responses leave farmers struggling to access useful market information.

Dodoma region, Tanzania – Theresia Abel Nyoka has received messages on her phone about M-Kilimo and e-Kilimo, digital services designed to help farmers, but she has never registered for either.

“It is simply because we have not been given education. I do not know their importance or benefits,” she told Al Jazeera by phone from Paranga village in central Tanzania’s Dodoma region.

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