{"id":22,"date":"2015-12-11T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2017-04-21T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:56:27","slug":"emkambo-call-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"Call Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMKambo has a working Call Centre\u00a0\u00a0 which is used to transmit agriculture knowledge and information through voice calls. KTA\u00a0 has\u00a0 established\u00a0 a\u00a0 Call\u00a0 Centre\u00a0 which\u00a0 comprises\u00a0 of\u00a0 sixteen\u00a0 mobiles lines, (Econet, Telecel and Netone), that are used to inform various value chain players about agricultural markets and\u00a0 commodities\u00a0 traded\u00a0 in\u00a0 those\u00a0 markets.\u00a0 Farmers\u00a0 and\u00a0 traders\u00a0 and other value chain actors all\u00a0 over\u00a0 the\u00a0 country interact\u00a0 via\u00a0 the\u00a0 call\u00a0 centre, making\u00a0 enquiries\u00a0 about\u00a0 daily\u00a0 prices\u00a0 and\u00a0 the\u00a0 prevailing demand and supply of certain commodities among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence from major produce markets in Harare (Mbare and Lusaka), Mutare (Sakubva&amp;Chipangano), Bulawayo (Malaleni&amp;Shasha), Gweru (Kudzanayi&amp;Kombayi), Kwekwe and Masvingo (Tafara&amp;Garikayi) indicates a massive opportunity for leveraging agriculture information through mobile technology.\u00a0 Among farmers and agriculture stakeholders, a new force rooted in new tools and practices built on and around the mobile phone is rising alongside the old system of capital intensive broadcast communication in Zimbabwe.\u00a0 After years of being treated like passive subjects of marketing and manipulation, farmers and traders are discovering their new power and want to be heard. Networked voices are reviving social and business conversations as agriculture stakeholders share insights through mobile phones and the internet. Farmers, traders, agro-dealers and other agricultural value chain actors are hungering for meaningful connections through which they can understand agriculture as a business and decide for themselves, thus the call centre.<br \/>\n<strong>The eMKambo call centre provides:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Assistance to farmers on what to plant using the Zimbabwe Crop Calendar and the demand and supply information which we gather daily from the markets across Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>-Information on the Current Market prices for produces using our daily price trackers from markets all over Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>-Sourcing produces for Companies from farmers, traders, agro-dealers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>-Linking farmers, traders and agro-dealers to the markets where they can sell their goods<\/p>\n<p>Our call centre numbers are: <strong>(263) 771859000-5<\/strong>, <strong>(263) 716331140-5<\/strong>, <strong>(263) 739866343-6<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMKambo has a working Call Centre\u00a0\u00a0 which is used to transmit agriculture knowledge and information through voice calls. KTA\u00a0 has\u00a0 established\u00a0 a\u00a0 Call\u00a0 Centre\u00a0 which\u00a0 comprises\u00a0 of\u00a0 sixteen\u00a0 mobiles lines, (Econet, Telecel and Netone), that are used to inform various value chain players about agricultural markets and\u00a0 commodities\u00a0 traded\u00a0 in\u00a0 those\u00a0 markets.\u00a0 Farmers\u00a0 and\u00a0 traders\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/?page_id=22\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Call Centre<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emkambo.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}