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Opinion: crop advice must come in the farmer's own language

Advice that farmers cannot read is advice that does not reach the field.

Opinion: crop advice must come in the farmer's own language
Photo: Illustration: Furrowline Farm (synthetic)

Too many advisories still arrive as long notices full of technical words.

A short message in the local language, with one clear action, does more than a page of tables.

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