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Garbage in, garbage out: Plant healthy cassava cuttings to keep your garden free of cassava mosaic disease
CHARACTERS: FATSANI: Well-known cassava farmer in Watch Village. He supplies high quality flour to Maldeco fisheries. Nasiwero’s husband. NASIWERO: Fatsani’s wife. DAVIE: Lives in Watch Village. One of his gardens is close to Fatsani’s cassava garden. Grace’s husband. GRACE: Davie’s wife. JOHN: Well-known cassava farmer who specializes in sweet cassava and sells to vendors. Recently,…
One head cannot lift a roof (Mutu umodzi susenza denga)
CHARACTERS AYAYA: 40-year-old woman with four children. The oldest is a boy aged 15. She is a widowed cassava farmer who plants the crop mostly for food and sells the surplus to supplement the family income, which mostly comes from working in other people’s gardens in her village and the villages beyond. CHIMWENE: Ayaya’s 15-year-old…
Rice farming: Yaayaa adopts new methods and gets a bountiful harvest
CHARACTERS YAAYAA: Single mother and rice farmer, 30 years of age. She is hard-working and this is a threat to the best farmer in the community. MR. OWUSU: Rice farmer in Dwirabra community, 47 years old, the best farmer they have had in years. He is not dynamic because he believes he is the best….
Farmers adopt eco-friendly, zero-energy storage technique for vegetables in northern Ghana
HOST 1: Hello, listeners. On today’s program, we will be discussing a very simple and eco-friendly post-harvest technology that farmers here in northern Ghana have been using to store their fresh produce. It is a technology originally developed in India and transferred to Ghana by the World Vegetable Center. Working with food and post-harvest engineer…
Packed and ready to go: Good quality packaging and handling boosts income from tomato sales
CHARACTERS: EXTENSION OFFICER: Man in mid-forties, knowledgeable and trained in agriculture. MAINA: Good farmer, likes to pay attention to detail and determined to succeed. WANJA: Very impatient, proud. Not-so-serious lady farmer, does not pay much attention to detail and likes doing things the same old way. She likes instant success and is always ready to…
Dried and delicious: Solar dryers help growers store fruits and vegetables longer
HOST: Welcome, listeners, to our farmer program. In this segment, we are going to talk about drying fruits and vegetables—a great practice for your health and for profits. We know that vegetables are important for a healthy diet. Not just because they add colour to our meal. But green leafy vegetables, or carrots, or tomatoes—they…
Growing common bean
Introduction Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most popular food legume* in the world. It was introduced to Tanzania about 300 years ago. In Tanzania and much of East Africa, common bean is grown for home consumption and for sale. East African farmers produce more than half of common beans grown in in Africa….
Soil erosion
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. Why is this subject important to listeners? Soil erosion reduces crop yields and silts up waterways, resulting in lower crop production, flooding, and pollution. On average, past soil erosion on agricultural land in Africa has reduced yields by more than 8% since the land was first…
Soil fertility
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. Introduction Soil fertility has been defined as “the capacity of soil to supply sufficient quantities and proportions of essential nutrients and water required for optimal growth of specified plants as governed by the soil’s chemical, physical, and biological attributes.” Agriculture is the main source of both…
Farmers grow old, but farming is constantly new: New standards for growing and harvesting cassava
NARRATOR: Mbarute is a young farmer who lives in the countryside with his parents. He is a clever young man and his cassava harvest proves this to his father, Semana. If you want to know how to treat your cassava harvest, listen to this drama! SCENE 1 NARRATOR: It’s evening after the Sunday rest and…