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E-agriculture in action

Big data for agriculture










FAO and ITU. 2019. E-agriculture in Action: Big Data for Agriculture. Bangkok, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.



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