Theme pack
Here is our sixth monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month all about legumes, including soybeans, common beans, groundnuts and cowpeas. The theme pack includes fifteen scripts and ten Barza Wire stories.
Scripts
- Backgrounder on growing soybean
- Madeline and Musa: Soybean practices for better yields and income
- Managing diseases and pests in common beans
- Kenyan farmer switches from wheat to beans: Better yields with new bean varieties
- Friendship and farming: Intercropping cowpea with cereals
- Successful pest management in cowpea: What farmers need to know
- When opportunity knocks, open the door wide: Managing pests in cowpeas
- Cowpea production
- Ethiopian farmers learn new practices to prevent pest damage in chickpeas and lentils
- A friend in need is a friend indeed: Keeping your groundnuts free from aflatoxin contamination
- Being faithful to the local proverb ‘There is strength in unity’ spells success for Malawian groundnut farmers
- He who has a running tummy opens the toilet door: Land preparation for groundnuts
- Issue Pack: Groundnut value chain in Malawi, production
- Legumes Make Their Own Fertilizer – With Help From Their Friends
- Storing Cowpea Seeds for a Season and a Reason
Barza Wire stories
- Tanzania: Growing beans is a family affair in Mbulu
- Uganda: New bean varieties grow—and cook—quickly
- Tanzania: Earning a good income with soybeans through contract farming
- Tanzania: Farmers switch from local to improved bean varieties to boost yield and profit
- Malawi: Keeping groundnuts dry to make profits high
- Tanzania: Inputs help farmers improve soya bean harvest
- Tanzania: Improved seeds increase soya bean harvest in spite of drought
- Uganda: Farmer improves soil fertility using soya beans
- Uganda: Growing beans for a ready market
- Malawi: High quality groundnuts market themselves