Theme pack
Tomatoes are a high-value crop that, if grown wisely with careful planning and hard work, can generate a high income for farmers. The theme pack includes six items from our Resource Packs: two backgrounders, two interview scripts, one drama, and one other item. The backgrounders are also available in Hausa. The theme pack also includes eight Barza Wire Farmer stories.
Backgrounder
- Backgrounder: Tomato marketing and transportation
- Backgrounder: Reducing post-harvest losses in tomatoes
Interviews
- Three times the effort for ten times the yield: Growing tomatoes in Nigeria
- Low-Cost Food Processing: Making Tomato Sauce
Drama
Other
Barza Wire stories
- Comoros: Farmers switch from growing bananas to more profitable tomatoes
- Burundi & Ghana: Two techniques for storing tomatoes longer
- Burundi: Farmer finds new technique for preserving tomatoes
- Cameroon: New way of growing tomatoes leads to success
- Burkina Faso: Women process tomatoes for profit
- Malawi: Farmer turns tomatoes to gold
- Niger: Tomatoes bring women big returns
- Guinea: Growing tomatoes all year round
Access Agriculture videos
- Making a cooling chamber for tomatoes
- Staggering production of tomatoes
- Good handling of tomatoes
- Managing tomato late blight
- Storing fresh and dried tomatoes
- Tomato concentrate and juice
- Drip irrigation for tomato
The following resources are available in Hausa:
Backgrounder
Access agriculture videos
This theme pack is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation through its YieldWise initiative.