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Pest management resources
Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month about pest management. The theme pack includes twelve scripts and seven Farmer stories from Barza Wire. Scripts Farmer makes his own biopesticide with neem When opportunity knocks, open the door wide: Managing pests in cowpeas A simple but effective trap for stable flies…
Resources on soil fertility
We are very pleased to present our second monthly theme pack of existing FRI resources, this time focusing on soil fertility. This collection represents some of the best resources on soil fertility that we’ve published over the past decade. Background information The promise of conversation agriculture Issue pack on soil health Interview and drama scripts…
Three times the effort for ten times the yield: Growing tomatoes in Nigeria
HOST: Today we will be talking about tomato production in Nigeria. Tomatoes are a very important food crop for Nigerians, eaten in meals across the country. Almost every ethnic group in the country has a delicacy that requires tomatoes, and what some people consider the national dish—jollof rice—is almost impossible to make without tomatoes. However,…
Soil erosion and cropping on sloping land
Part A: Steep hillside land INTERVIEWER: Soil is a farmer’s most precious resource. Good soil is necessary for growing good crops. But if you farm on a hillside, rainwater can wash away your soil—and with it your livelihood. This is called soil erosion. In this script, we talk with an expert who advises farmers…
Fall armyworm resources
Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month about Fall armyworm, the voracious pest that is causing so much damage to maize and other crops across much of Africa. The theme pack includes a backgrounder and two items from Barza Wire. Scripts Backgrounder on Fall armyworm Barza Wire stories Benin &…
Honey is good food that bees give you at no cost
Part A: How to make a simple beehive HOST:Honey is a good food that many more people could be using. And they could be getting honey without any cost at all! That’s because there are honeybees almost everywhere in the world. And some of them could be working for you! Honey, of course, comes from…
Rehabilitating cocoa plantations
HOST: Hello, listeners. It’s another exciting week of farm broadcast, and today we will discuss a very important cash crop in Ghana—cocoa! My name is Nadia and I have here, Mr. Theophilus Osei Owusu, the deputy director at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, or MoFA. He will tell us all that he knows about…
Fall armyworm
NOTE: This information was updated in May 2018. A. Introduction. The Fall armyworm, which has the scientific name of Spodoptera frugiperda, is a major pest of staple crops. The larvae (caterpillars) prefer feeding on young maize plants, but have also been reported to feed on a variety of other crops, including millet, sorghum, rice, wheat,…
Careful preparation makes its own luck: Land preparation for fava beans
HOST:Welcome to (name of radio program). Today, we are visiting Bakelo kebele, a community in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia just outside the capital, Addis Ababa. We will be talking about fava beans, which is appropriate since in Amharic—one of the major languages of Ethiopia—“bakela” means “fava”! It’s the first week of June and it’s…
How growing okra serves women in Bakay Wèrè
HOST: Hello, dear listeners. Today, we’re going to meet okra growers from Bakay Wèrè village, in the Office du Niger zone of Mali. We will learn how okra production and the okra market are progressing, and what benefits farmers can enjoy by growing this vegetable. Bakay Wèrè is a village in Niono cercle, in…