Photo: Flickr, CC Better for Farmer and Saves Lots of Water Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), a telecom company in India, has launched a new service that allows farmers to operate their irrigation pumps remotely using a SMS-capable cellphone. This is extremely useful because the alternative often is for the farmers to walk many miles to the pumps,

often at night because the electricity supply is a bit more reliable then (and sometimes after walking for hours, they arrive to find out that the electricity is out)…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Instead of Walking Miles, Indian Farmers Use Cellphones to Operate Irrigation Pumps