UK farmers tweet agri hashtag to top of charts

The Twitter hashtag #AgriChatUK reached the top 10 trends in the UK by October last year, with many farmers professing that this and other social media outlets were a “lifeline” when out on remote farms in the countryside.

“Farming can in many ways be very, very lonely. This is a great way to bring people together and enable them to communicate with each other in an easy manner,” one Twitter user was quoted as saying by the Guardian.

Globally, services such as an internet connection are more and more seen as important in development of rural areas, to stop the decline of the small-holder family farming which experts see as vital for youth employment and food security.