巴基斯坦將給農民發500萬部智能手機
Five million smartphones will be given to farmers in Pakistan in an effort to improve knowledge of modern farming techniques, an official has said.
據巴基斯坦一名官員表示，爲提高現代農業技術知識水平，巴基斯坦政府將贈與農民500萬部智能手機。The first phones would be delivered in October, said Punjab Information Technology Board chairman Dr Umar Saif.
旁遮普省星系技術委員會主席奧馬爾·賽義夫博士表示，第一批手機將於今年10月份交付到農民手中。Advice from experts would also be distributed via the devices.
通過這些手機，專家的意見也會傳達到農民手中。
"The farmers will receive free alerts about the use of pesticides for their yields," said Dr Saif, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan.
據美聯社巴基斯坦分社報道，奧馬爾博士說道：“農民們將會免費收到關於在農田裏使用農藥的通知。”
Large numbers of farmers in countries such as India and Kenya have also recently experimented with smartphone technology.
在印度和肯尼亞等國家，大批農民最近也體驗到了智能手機技術。Hendrik Knoche at Denmark's Aalborg University was involved in a recent project to design a smartphone interface that could be used by farmers in India, even those with literacy problems.
來自丹麥奧爾堡大學的亨德里·克諾奇最近參加了一個項目，設計一個可以供印度農民，即使文盲也能使用的智能手機交互界面。"A lot of the information that farmers are really interested in is often not available online," he told the BBC, "such as whether a local dealer has good quality material or whether it's adulterated."
他在接受BBC採訪時說道：“許多農民真正感興趣的信息在互聯網上是沒有的，例如當地經銷商是否用了好材料、或者是否以次充好。”At the very least, Dr Knoche said, his experience suggested that even farmers new to the devices would soon pick up the basics of how to use them - and that that could benefit them in the future.
但是至少，亨德里·克諾奇表示，從他的經驗來看，即使是第一次接觸智能手機的農民也能夠很快掌握基本的使用方法--而那就可能在將來給他們帶來好處。
