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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…
Compost: A solution to impoverishment of the soil and the impact of overusing chemical fertilizers
SFX: Sound of female traders chatting, animals, and engines. host starts speaking in the noise of the market, which then fades under his or her voice. HOST: Hello, dear listeners. This morning, we’ll see how farmers from the Mopti region, and specifically those from Bandjougou village, manage without using chemical fertilizers in their fields….
Resources about post-harvest processing and storage for cereals
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…
Resources about livestock health
Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, all about livestock health. The theme pack includes thirteen scripts and two Barza Wire stories. Scripts External parasites of chickens: Impact and management Backgrounder: Raising goats Good donkey care reaps multiple benefits Farmer uses vet’s advice to save chickens from Newcastle disease Chicken diseases Hard…
Rice production
Introduction: Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). It is the main source of food for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The natural habitat of rice is tropical swamplands, but it can also be cultivated in a variety of subtropical and tropical habitats. Unlike…
Using conservation tillage and soil cover in Conservation agriculture
What is conservation tillage and why is this subject important to listeners? Conservation tillage includes both reduced tillage and zero or no-till. It typically involves either making planting basins by hand, or using ox- or tractor-drawn rippers*. Details on both of these approaches are included in the Key information section below. Using conservation tillage…