Real time market information between identified buyers and smallholder farmers is facilitated through simplified information exchange systems through; buyer forums, mobile phones, Internet, village notice boards and market exchange visits.
Some of the strategies used by FCI in market information exchanges are:
•    Market Information Notice Boards; Village-based and market based
•    Buyer -seller forums;
•    Structured market and buyers visits;
•    Village based Field days and exchange visits;
•    Mobile phones;
•    Radio and Television (Electronic) Programmes;
•    Agro-input suppliers and stockists
•    Print materials (Fliers, posters, banners and manuals).
•    Agro-input suppliers and stockists;
•    Demonstration plots and demonstration structures;
•    The internet