Theme pack
Here is our theme pack of FRI resources for September, which includes resources on maize, soybean, rice, cowpea, and millet.
This month’s theme pack includes 17 items from our Resource Packs, including six backgrounders, four interview scripts, four dramas, two series of spots, and one narrative. It also includes five Farmer stories.
Backgrounders
- Backgrounder on reducing post-harvest loss in maize
- Backgrounder on maize production
- Backgrounder on growing soybean
- Backgrounder on rice production and post-harvest activities
- Backgrounder on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Cowpea production
Interview scripts
- Adding value to farm produce: Soybeans
- Storing cowpea seeds for a season and a reason
- How millet farmers are adapting to climate change in northern Ghana
- The advantages of growing and using finger millet
Dramas
- Madeline and Musa: Soybean practices for better yields and income
- Rice farming: Yaayaa adopts new methods and gets a bountiful harvest
- Successful pest management in cowpea: What farmers need to know
- When opportunity knocks, open the door wide: Managing pests in cowpeas
Spots
Narrative
Barza Wire stories
- Ethiopia: Maize farmers grow special plants to manage Fall armyworm
- Tanzania: Hybrid maize increases harvest, but also cost
- Tanzania: Earning a good income with soybeans through contract farming
- Ghana: Young rice seller and family profit from hearing market prices on the radio
- Tanzania: Reduced tilling brings big rewards for millet and sorghum farmers
- Ghana: Rice farmers fail to control weeds due to influx of fake and substandard herbicides
Resources available in Swahili
- Taarifa za kina: Kupunguza upotevu wa mahindi baada ya mavuno
- Taarifa za kina: Uzalishaji wa Mahindi
- Nakala juu ya kilimo cha maharage ya soya
- Jinsi wakulima wa mtama kaskazini mwa Ghana wanavyolima kulingana na mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa
- Madeline na Musa: Kilimo cha maharage ya Soya kwa mazao bora na kipato
- Tanzania: Utifuaji mdogo wa udongo unawalipa wakulima wa mtama na uwele
Resource available in Amharic
This theme pack is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through AGRA. The contents are the responsibility of Farm Radio International and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID.