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Sowing the Future – A Farmer’s Tale

Posted By: Rise Team|Dated: June 20, 2011

Sowing the Future – A Farmer’s Tale

In the developing world, infrastructure is spreading and telecommunications is reachng even the most remote villages. Yet a large segment of agriculture still runs on methods developed hundrerd of years ago with productivity laging behind global standards.

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