
#104: Chickens, cowpea, and sorghum
Welcome to Farm Radio Resource Pack 104! The Pack contains a wide variety of topics, designed to appeal to a wide range of broadcasters in many parts of Africa. The backgrounders in this Pack provide key information on growing the Ethiopian grain called teff, and on maize production. We have also included three Broadcaster how-to guides.
- Chicken diseases
- Farmer uses vet’s advice to save chickens from Newcastle disease
- Cowpea haulms to the rescue: Using cowpea residues to feed livestock
- Health benefits of sorghum, the forgotten cereal
- Water-efficient gardens: Water is life.
- Farmers triple sorghum yield thanks to mulch farming
- Why insects might be the ideal feed for chickens and fish, part I
- Why insects might be the ideal feed for chickens and fish, part 2
- Using high quality rice seed in northern Ghana
- Farmer makes his own biopesticide with neem
- Being your brother and sister’s keeper: Preventing HIV and AIDS for people with disabilities
- Good donkey care reaps multiple benefits
- Be a hare, not a hyena: Growing standards for hard-working potato farmers
- Backgrounder on growing tef
- Backgrounder: Maize production
- F.A.I.R. journalism standards for farmer programs
- BH2 – How to be an effective producer of a farmer radio program
- BH2 – How to conduct an effective panel discussion