Theme pack
Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month all about post-harvest management and processing of cereal crops. The theme pack includes ten scripts and four Barza Wire stories.
Scripts
- Papa Akwesi learns: Careful post-harvest management maximizes maize income
- Farmers work together to safely store muskuwaari sorghum in northern Cameroon
- Scientists are improving the traditional maize crib
- Processing cereals into local beer: An income-generating activity for women
- Innovative farmer uses pounded maize cobs to protect stored maize
- Growing and processing top quality rice will get you top money
- Parboiled rice is easy to mill, cook, and sell
- Dry rice seed off the ground to ensure top quality
- Two women rice farmers discuss their best seed saving practices
- Powder of little pepper protects stored rice
Barza Wire stories
- Zimbabwe & Ghana: Warehouses and wood ash protect stored maize and profits
- Ghana: Warehouse keeps maize dry and profits high
- Malawi: Women sun dry maize to cope with hunger
- Zimbabwe: Small-scale farmers reduce post-harvest losses with airtight storage (IPS)
We hope that this kind of “one-stop shop” on selected topics is useful, and that can you use the resources in this month’s theme pack to make effective programming on post-harvest management and processing of cereal crops.