{"id":65,"date":"2018-02-20T04:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2043.temp.domains\/~naganine\/myanmaragriculture\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-02-20T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T05:02:14","slug":"myanmar-farmers-going-against-the-grain-with-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar farmers going against the grain with apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>A free app on farmer San San Hla&#8217;s smartphone is her new weapon in the war against the dreaded stem borer moth that blighted her rice paddy in southern Myanmar for the last two years.<\/h4>\n<p>Mobile penetration stood at just seven percent in 2012. By the end of 2017, smartphone penetration had rocketed to 80 percent.\u00a0 A nascent tech hub followed and outside of agriculture, apps were created for everything from healthcare to Myanmar&#8217;s parliament.\u00a0 Farmers, many among the country&#8217;s poorest, today find themselves with a mobile computer in their hands &#8212; a game-changer for the entrepreneurs behind &#8216;Green Way,&#8217; who launched their app in 2016 and now employ 18 full-time staff.\u00a0 &#8220;&#8216;Green way&#8217; is my dream to link farmers and experts,&#8221; Yin Yin Phyu told AFP. &#8220;The farmers can get help whenever they need.&#8221;\u00a0 Some 70,000 farmers have already downloaded the app although she hears far more are accessing it through phone-to-phone sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationmultimedia.com\/detail\/Startup_and_IT\/30339171\">http:\/\/www.nationmultimedia.com\/detail\/Startup_and_IT\/30339171<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A free app on farmer San San Hla&#8217;s smartphone is her new weapon in the war against the dreaded stem borer moth that blighted her rice paddy in southern Myanmar for the last two years. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/?p=65\" title=\"Myanmar farmers going against the grain with apps\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,14,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-65","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-farmer","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmaragriculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}