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Farmers Can Earn Income Producing Compost
Characters: Host Romano Afwande: A smallholder farmer working with ARDAP on a composting project. Boniface Omondi: Project extension officer from ARDAP. Host: Good morning, listeners. Today’s program is aimed directly at smallholder farmers. It talks about the economic benefits of using and producing organic compost. Our program is based on a Kenyan farmer’s recommendations and…
Raising Rabbits for Meat and Profit: Part Two
Traditional swange music from Mbanor village, Nigeria. Host: Welcome to the second and concluding part of the interview series on raising rabbits. My guest is the famous Chief Asema Yuwa, a retired agricultural extension worker and experienced rabbit keeper from Mbanor Village. Once again, Chief Asema Yuwa, you are welcome. Chief: Thank you. It’s good…
Raising Rabbits for Meat and Profit: Part One
Traditional swange music from Mbanor village, Nigeria. Host: The short piece of swange music which opened the program today comes from Mbanor, a village which is famous for its fine breeds of livestock. Coincidentally, our guest on the program today is a famous farmer who is also from Mbanor village. Please join me in welcoming…
Fruit Changes Farmers’ Lives
Fade up theme music to introduce the programme, then fade under host. HOST: Friends, welcome to today’s programme, “Fruit changes farmers’ lives.” Today we’ll share information about fruit crop production to boost farm income and for other benefits. Stay tuned to make your lives more fruitful. Fade up theme music, then fade under host. HOST:…
Let’s Preserve Our Fruit and Vegetables!
HOST: Today’s program explains how to use traditional methods to preserve certain local fruits and vegetables. Tamarind and roselle, called bissap in Senegal, will be the focus of our program. We will start with tamarind. Tamarind is a fruit that contains a brown, sugary pulp that is sticky and a bit sour to the taste….
Farmers Try to Beat a Virulent Disease
VUMIRIA COLLINS: Good morning, sir. My name is Vumiria Collins and I work with Radio West in Mbarara, Uganda. I am here at the office of the district Agricultural Officer of Mbarara district to get information about practices that farmers are being encouraged to use in the wake of the deadly banana wilt disease that…
New Technique Reduces Work Needed to Thin Millet
HOST: Here is a clever new tip for all farmers worried about the availability of labour for thinning millet: When you sow millet seeds with a 30-hole plate, add some millet bran to the seeds. When you add millet bran, fewer millet plants will germinate, and your millet crop will not need as much thinning….
The Speaking Scarecrows
Introductory theme music to open the show, then fade out. HOST: Dear listeners, hello and welcome to our programme. Today, we will talk about a simple way to chase pest birds away from your cereal fields. Stay tuned to find out all about it. Farm field noises – voices and occasional bird song. Fade under…
Powder of Little Pepper Protects Stored Rice
Theme music up, then slow fade and under host. HOST: Welcome to the programme. You may know that insect and microbe pests cause serious damage to rice crops in West Africa. But did you know that there are local solutions? Today, we will listen to Mr. Bamba, a rice farmer from Guinea. Mr. Bamba uses…
A Local Plant Prevents Pest Damage to Stored Seeds
Theme music fades up then under host. HOST: Dear listeners, welcome to today’s show. Theme music fades up then under host. HOST: Listeners, today we have great news! In today’s program we are going to tell you about a local plant which can prevent pest damage to stored seeds. Stay tuned and a local expert…