{"id":961300,"date":"2025-09-13T06:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961300"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:01:18","slug":"how-malawi-is-taking-ai-technology-to-small-scale-farmers-who-dont-have-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/how-malawi-is-taking-ai-technology-to-small-scale-farmers-who-dont-have-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"How Malawi is taking AI technology to small-scale farmers who don&#8217;t have smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MULANJE, Malawi: Alex Maere survived the destruction of Cyclone Freddy when it tore through southern Malawi in 2023. His farm didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old saw decades of work disappear with the precious soil that the floods stripped from his small-scale farm in the foothills of Mount Mulanje.<\/p>\n<p>He was used to producing a healthy 850 kilograms (1,870 pounds) of corn each season to support his three daughters and two sons. He salvaged just 8 kilograms (17 pounds) from the wreckage of Freddy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MULANJE, Malawi: Alex Maere survived the destruction of Cyclone Freddy when it tore through southern Malawi in 2023. His farm didn&#8217;t. The 59-year-old saw decades of work disappear with the precious soil that the floods stripped from his small-scale farm in the foothills of Mount Mulanje. He was used to producing a healthy 850 kilograms (1,870 pounds) of corn each season to support his three daughters and two sons. He salvaged just 8 kilograms (17 pounds) from the wreckage of Freddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}