Theme pack
Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month about rice, sesame, and fonio.
The theme pack includes 20 scripts from Resource Packs and 14 Farmer stories from Barza Wire.
Scripts
- Fonio
- Combine different methods to keep birds away from rice fields
- How to prepare a rice nursery
- Growing and processing top quality rice will get you top money
- Growing NERICA is a farming solution for coping with climate change
- Powder of little pepper protects stored rice
- Scarecrows and cassette tapes protect rice fields against bird pests
- Two women rice farmers discuss their best seed saving practices
- Dr. Rice Panicle answers questions about rice and soil fertility
- Dry rice seed off the ground to ensure top quality
- Backgrounder: Rice production
- Integrated rice-fish farming improves Mohamed Farota’s life
- Higher yields and less weeding if you transplant rice from a nursery
- Parboiled rice is easy to mill, cook, and sell
- Protect your rice crop against birds
- Rice farming: Yaayaa adopts new methods and gets a bountiful harvest
- Select only your best rice seed with floatation and manual sorting
- Growing New Rice for Africa: A Participatory Radio Campaign helps farmers improve their lives
- Rice farmers use an integrated approach for success in weed management
- Using high quality rice seed in northern Ghana
Barza Wire stories
Rice
- Senegal: Consumers want local rice, but market complications make it hard to find
- Senegal: Urban youth find jobs selling local rice
- Ghana: Young rice seller and family profit from hearing market prices on the radio
- Burkina Faso: Rice farmers diversify by raising fish in paddies
- Benin: New stove boosts income for women rice farmers (Inter Press Service)
- Nigeria: Small-scale rice farmers lament decline of local rice (Vanguard Media)
- Kenya: Upland rice gives hope to small-scale maize farmers
- Burundi: Rice farmers get better harvests with motorized tiller
- Senegal: Villages advance towards self-sufficiency in rice (IPS)
- Malawi: Rice farming pulls widow out of poverty
- Burkina Faso: Women parboilers union helps rice farmers
- Burkina Faso: Women solve fuel problem with rice husks
Sesame
Resources in Hausa
- Hada hannyoyi daban daban ka kore tsuntsaye daga gonar shinkafar ka
- A guji shannya shinkafa a kasa domin tabbatar da saman darajar
- Zabi mafi kyawon kwayar shinkafar ka ta jiko da tsinta
Resources in Swahili
- Kausha mbegu za mpunga bila kuziweka ardhini ili upate mazao yenye ubora
- Kilimo cha aina mpya ya mpunga kwa Afrika: Kampeni Shirikishi ya redio huwasaidia wakulima kuboresha maisha yao
We hope that this kind of “one-stop shop” on selected topics is useful, and that you can use the resources in this month’s theme pack to make effective programming on rice, sesame, and fonio.
Please note that two of the older scripts were written when FRI was known as DCFRN, or the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network.
This document was made possible with financial support from Luxembourg Development Cooperation. The content of this document is the sole responsibility of the partner and may not reflect the views of Luxembourg Development Cooperation.