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Mr. Bana’s mill: Quality standards for fresh potatoes and cassava
NARRATOR: Potatoes and cassava are important root and tuber crops and are a great source of energy in many parts of the world. Millions of farmers in Eastern Africa grow cassava and potato, mostly for home consumption or to sell fresh in the market. By processing and adding value, farmers can make even more…
Papa Akwesi learns: Careful post-harvest management maximizes maize income
CHARACTERS AKWESI PAPA: 61-year-old farmer and husband of Aggie AGGIE: 54-year-old nutritionist and wife of Akwesi Papa AKWESI: 17-year-old high school boy and son of Akwesi Papa and Aggie JOHN: 63-year-old farmer and brother of Akwesi Papa OSEI: 58-year-old agronomist AUNTIE SERWAA: 43-year-old farmer SCENE ONE SFX: Door opens AKWESI: Ah,…
Sorghum: Good yields even when the rains fail
Fade up signature tune to start the show. fade out after 15 seconds under host’s voice. Host: Hello and welcome to (name of farmer program) on (name of radio station.) Today, I am going to talk to an expert on sorghum, a crop suitable for drier areas. But first, I am going to visit a…
Our matoke will survive: Ugandan farmers fight banana bacterial wilt
HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. Today we will be talking about growing matoke (Editor’s note: matoke is cooking banana). And, of course in this day and age, you can’t talk about growing bananas without talking about banana bacterial wilt. This disease first appeared in Ugandan banana fields about…
Nomadic people fight fowl pox in Mali
HOST: In Mali, traditional poultry farming for meat production is disappearing as intensive production of broiler chickens and other imported varieties increases. Some farmers and consumers are concerned about the disappearance of traditional breeds. Raising the traditional breed of chicken, known to Malians since the dawn of time, has always allowed rural people to…
Successful pest management in cowpea: What farmers need to know
SCENE 1 ISSAH’S HOME SFX: Sound of birds chirping in the background HAWA: (off-mic) Is anybody at home? ISSAH: Yes, come in. HAWA: (coming on-mic) Ei, Issah! Good morning. I wasn’t expecting to see you home at this time of the morning. No farm today? ISSAH: Ah, Hawa, Aisha…
When opportunity knocks, open the door wide: Managing pests in cowpeas
Characters Afariwa: Ambitious and hardworking. Determined to enter and win the farmers’ competition. She is the wife of Kojo. Kojo: Husband of Afariwa. He is not supportive of his wife’s decision to grow cowpeas. Yawa: Kojo’s sister and Afariwa’s sister-in-law. Lost her entire cowpea farm to pest attack. Episode 1 signature tune up, then fade…
Cowpea production
Introduction and how to use this issue pack This issue pack is designed to give radio broadcasters the information needed to create effective and entertaining radio programs about growing cowpea. It talks about growing cowpeas in northern Ghana, but you can easily adapt the information to other sub-Saharan African countries where cowpeas are grown. The…
Chicken hatchery: Innovative farmer invents large-capacity kerosene egg incubator
HOST: Imagine … a kerosene-fuelled egg incubator that can hatch up to 600 eggs in twenty-one days! It’s true! And that is what we are going to learn about today. MUSIC: SIGNATURE TUNE UP AND OUT UNDER HOST: Hello and welcome to the program Farmer to Farmer. I am your host, Winnie Onyimbo. In today’s…
Organic cotton helps the soil and the community
Characters Bossou: farmer of about 40 years of age, hard-working Dassi: farmer a bit older than Bossou Adjagoué: drunkard of the village. He also spreads the village news. Chief Biowa: technical advisor, coordinator of the organic cotton program Sèna: seven-year-old child, Dassi’s son Coordinator: advisor, conventional farming programs Tassi: female farmer, Bossou’s niece Signature tune…