Interviews
Interview scripts feature interviews with two farmers or rural people and one or two subject-matter experts, exploring a challenge and possible solutions. They also feature and intro and extro by the radio show host. They are written by African journalists, based on real interviews.
Interview scripts can be translated and adapted as necessary to suit the local context, then performed on air as dramatized interviews. Or reach them as inspiration and guidance for your own interviews.
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- Community development
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- Marketing and market information
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Getting it right: The right way to apply fertilizer
SFX: SIGNATURE TUNE. HOST: Hello, listener!! Welcome to another edition of the program for farmers, “Farm right.” Are you a farmer who has been experiencing low yields? Have you applied fertilizers to improve your yield but still not got the desired results? Could you be doing something incorrectly? Did you know that getting better…
Poultry and small ruminant vaccine availability and effectiveness
HOST: In this program, we will talk about poultry and small ruminant diseases. What are the most common poultry and small ruminant diseases? What is their impact on poultry and small ruminant farms? Which treatments are available for these diseases and how effective are they? Are treatments and vaccines accessible for average farmers? To answer…
Impact of COVID-19 on availability of fresh vegetables and how farmers and others are coping
SFX: PHONE RINGING KAMBOLE: Hello, this is Kambole Kanyanta at the District Agriculture Office. May I know who is calling? FILIUS: My name is Filius Chalo Jere, the producer of the Farming is a Business radio program at Breeze FM. May I have an interview with you by phone? KAMBOLE: What about? FILIUS: About the…
Safe management of medical waste, a challenge for our health centres
JOURNALIST: The World Health Organization estimates that 16 billion injections are performed worldwide each year. All of these needles and syringes are part of what is known as medical waste, i.e., the waste produced by the human and animal health sector during diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, and research. Because of their dangerous nature, these wastes should…
Managing pests in stored cowpeas
HOST: Ernest Tibiri is a farmer in the village of Passakongo near Dédougou in western Burkina Faso. He grows maize, millet, sorghum, and cowpea. But Ernest encounters a lot of difficulties producing and storing his cowpea. Ernest, what is the crop protection situation in recent years in general and with regard to cowpea in particular?…
The importance of a healthy diet for pregnant women
MUSIC: ON NUTRITION OUMAR CISSE: Good evening, everyone. Right now we have our doctor with us in the studio and we welcome him. Please introduce yourself to the audience. NUTRITIONIST: I am Mrs. Coulibaly Fatoumata Koné, known by everyone as Mama. I work at TRIPANOSO (Editor’s note: a community health centre). OUMAR CISSE: Mama, we…
It comes like fire: Managing late blight of potato in Nigeria
HOST: Hello, listeners, welcome to our program. My name is _____. Today, we will be talking about Irish potato blight disease in Nigeria. Our journey takes us to the city of Jos, in the northern part of the country. We will talk to local farmers and experts and find out about their experiences with this…
Adding value to farm produce: Soybeans
FILIUS: Welcome to yet another exciting episode of Farming is a business, the program that educates small-scale farmers on how to practice simple farming methods and still benefit from their farming. My name is Filius Chalo Jere and today I have an exciting topic: how our small-scale farmers can add value to their crops before…
Marketing farm produce
SFX: Signature tune for 15 seconds PRESENTER: Good afternoon and welcome to your weekly, informative farming program. My name is ____. Today, we talk about marketing farm produce. Often, farmers complain about the lack of markets for their produce and about unfavourable prices that prevent them from making good returns on their investments. We visit…