Script
The theme pack includes 12 items from our Resource Packs: 10 interview scripts and two backgrounders. The theme pack also includes 15 Barza Wire Farmer stories and one other Barza Wire resource. These resources focus on various aspects of fruit and vegetable farming, including production practices, managing pests and diseases, good post-harvest and storage practices, and reducing post-harvest losses.
Interviews
How growing okra serves women in Bakay Wèrè
Reviving banana production to boost production and income in Ugunja District, western Kenya
Three times the effort for ten times the yield: Growing tomatoes in Nigeria
Sack farming: Unlimited vegetable harvest!
Farmer uses red ants to protect fruit trees against pests
Our matoke will survive: Ugandan farmers fight banana bacterial wilt
Dried and delicious: Solar dryers help growers store fruits and vegetables longer
Mangoes for all seasons: Kenyan farmers profit by drying and selling mangoes all year round
Packed and ready to go: Good quality packaging and handling boosts income from tomato sales
Farmers adopt eco-friendly, zero-energy storage technique for vegetables in northern Ghana
Backgrounders
The following resources are available in Hausa:
Shimfida: Rage Asara Tumatur Bayan an Gama Girbi
The following resources are available in Kenyan Swahili:
Jinsi ya kupunguza hasara inayokadiriwa baada ya kuvuna maembe
Barza Wire stories
- Zimbabwe: Fruits of his passion
- Tanzania: Farmers replace climate-stressed cash crops with vegetables
- Kenya: Growing fruit and vegetables helps pastoralists survive drought
- Burkina Faso: Household heads plant fruit trees to improve youth diets
- Tanzania: Farmers learn about local vegetables and nutrition on the radio
- Uganda: Good soil makes watermelons a profitable crop in northern Uganda
- Burkina Faso: Farmer profits from organic vegetables
- Mali: Digging manure pits to grow more vegetables
- Nigeria: Mushroom farming for food, medicine, and animal feed
- Tanzania: Villagers travel far to gather increasingly scarce wild vegetables
- Malawi: Farmers earn ready cash with vegetables
- Kenya: Pastoralist women find economic freedom through fruit and vegetable gardens
- Mozambique: Woman builds lychee fruit export business
- Burundi & Ghana: Two techniques for storing tomatoes longer
- Kenya: Farmers dry and process mangoes into value-added products
Other Barza Wire resources
How to grow vining vegetables in small spaces
The following Barza Wire story is available in Swahili
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