Radio spots
Radio spots are short radio pieces (usually 15-60 seconds) that clearly deliver a single message.
The written text can be translated and/or adapted to your local context, then recorded and broadcast during or between any program. Broadcast the same radio spot regularly so that listeners remember the message.
- All
- Agriculture
- Aquaculture
- Children and youth
- Climate change
- Community development
- Crop production
- Energy
- Environment and climate change
- Gender equality
- Health
- Hygiene and sanitation
- Land issues
- Livestock and beekeeping
- Marketing and market information
- Nature-based Solutions
- Nutrition
- Post-harvest activities
- Social issues
- Soil health
- Trees and agroforestry
- Water management
Have you heard…?
From the United States: Weevils Bean Tumbling Controls Farmers who grow beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) know the damage the larvae of the common bean weevil (Acanthoscelides obtectus) can do. The larvae can quickly reduce a bag of beans to nothing. But the problem is easy to solve according to Dr. Martha Quentin from Michigan State…
Have you heard …?
Save and edit this resource as a Word document From Guatemala: Elder tree leaves fertilize soil HOST: In the Department of San Marcos in Guatemala, farmers fertilize the soil with leaves from elder trees. The elder tree (Sambucus nigra) is a traditional tree of the uplands. The people of San Marcos say the leaves…
DCFRN Hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document A: Protect your fruit from bats and thieves HOST: Do you have a problem with bats in your fruit trees? In Thailand, bats fly into trees at night and feed on the ripe fruit. Farmers solve this problem by scaring the bats away. They do…
DCFRN Hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document A: Disease control using compost extracts By Daniel Oloo Otieno, Agricultural Coordinator, INADES-Formation, Kenya HOST: Compost extracts can be used to protect crops from plant fungal diseases. Mix thoroughly decomposed, one-month-old compost with water at a ratio between 1:5 and 1:8. Allow it to ferment for…
DCFRN Hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document A: How to control pests in coconut trees By P. Ravikumar, Agricultural Consultant, Tamil Nadu, India HOST: Coconut trees are often affected by rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) and red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus furruginens). Do you know there is an easy method to control these insects? In…
Let us plant trees: Radio spots or print media fillers
Save and edit this resource as a Word document Spot No. 1: Length: 86 words; 35 seconds (approx.) Look at that plot of yours. You have planted tea, coffee, maize, bananas, and other crops. Those other fields you have left for your cows to graze. All that is okay and fine. You need the cash…
DCFRN hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. A. Low-cost high-energy feed for the dry season Do you ever have a problem feeding your cattle or sheep during the dry season when normal feed supplies become scarce? High-energy livestock feed that you buy is expensive. You may wonder whether or not there is some…
DCFRN Hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document A. Better care means better bananas Robert Bishop, Family Food Production & Nutrition Coordinator, Palau HOST: The better care we take of our banana trees, the more food they will give us. * Feed young banana trees manure, compost, or other fertilizer. Place it about…
DCFRN farming hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document A: Growing maize when water is scarce David Kambikiya, Horticultural Officer, Zambia: I have often saved my maize crop from severe droughts. I do it by companion cropping with pumpkins. I use varieties with big leaves. The big leaves protect the soil around the maize from…
Life is better in the country: Radio spots or print media fillers
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. * Fidel Orense, Philippines, broadcasts radio spots on this subject. So does James Achanyi-Fontem, Cameroon. He says, “They are effective because of their constant repetition in the official and national languages.” Semi-formal evaluations quoted by Milton Munoz, Honduras, show that farmers retain almost 90% of the…