# 90: Farmer Innovation
April 1, 2010
This package features the 15 winning scripts from the radio scriptwriting competition on smallholder farmer innovation. The scripts tell fascinating stories about creative farmers across sub-Saharan Africa who have come up with ways to improve their livelihoods.
- Sawdust prolongs the storage life of potatoes
- Innovative farmer uses pounded maize cobs to protect stored maize
- Farmer uses red ants to protect fruit trees against pests
- Farmer in Malawi uses animal dung to protect crops by fending off hungry goats
- A farmer suffocates stem borers to death and saves his cocoa farm
- A farmer uses jatropha to protect his young oil palm seedlings from rodents
- Scarecrows and cassette tapes protect rice fields against bird pests
- Women use ‘hanging gardens’ to grow vegetables and solve land crisis
- Sack farming: Unlimited vegetable harvest!
- Composting, a better practice to improve soil fertility: The case of Dien
- What fattens pigs is still a mystery
- The motor pump mill
- Transforming the bicycle into a vehicle of innovation
- The miracle plant ‘zabila/leele’ or henna: The turning point in food security for a smallholder woman farmer in northern Ghana
- A Kenyan farmer uses water hyacinth to feed chickens
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