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Protect Your Rice: Prevent Grain Loss from Harvest to Storage
Characters Program host Mr. Raju: Farmer Ravi: Mr. Raju’s 10-year-old son Program host: The first step to reduce harvest and post-harvest losses of your rice is to harvest it at the right time. Listen to this conversation between father and son on how to avoid losses of the family’s rice crop, from harvest to storage. See…
Land Ownership Rights: Access Denied – Why Women Need Equal Access to Land
MUSIC (Bring up program theme or other music…run for 10 seconds…fade under host…). Characters Narrator: Program host. Grace: Woman farmer. She is concerned about women’s right to inherit land. Simon: Grace’s husband. Narrator: Coming Up: Access Denied…a drama exploring why women need equal access to land. MUSIC (Bring up Program Theme…run for 10 seconds…). Introduction (Narrator) : They plow it…
Women and Credit – Part 3: Women Set Up a Purchasing and Marketing Cooperative
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. ANNOUNCER: Today’s program is about the women in our audience. You know how hard you work every day. So why is it so difficult for you to earn an income from your work? If you joined together with other women to buy and sell farm products,…
Women and Credit – Part 2: Women Start a Revolving Loan Fund
Characters Narrator: Program host. Sylvia: Woman farmer. Joyce: Woman farmer, Sylvia’s friend. Program host: In our last program, we listened to Sylvia and Joyce as they discussed different types of credit that are available to women farmers. They also talked about how women might use the money they borrow to earn extra income from their farms. Today, Sylvia…
Women and Credit – Part 1: Women Learn About Credit
Characters Narrator Program host. Sylvia Woman farmer. Joyce Woman farmer, Sylvia’s friend. Program host: Like many of the women in our audience, Sylvia farms a small plot of land and uses most of the food she grows to feed her family. Sylvia would like to sell vegetables at the local market to make a little extra money, but she…
Salma Goes into Business
Characters: Narrator: Host of radio program. Salma: 30 years old, mother of five children. Nasreen: Salma’s 12-year-old daughter. Kamal: Salma’s husband. Nasreen: (UPSET) Mother! Come quickly! The police were here. They’ve taken Father away. Salma: What?! Nasreen, calm down and tell me what is this nonsense? Nasreen: (CRYING) I saw it myself in the village. Father and two other men were taken…
Starting a Community Seed Bank
FADE IN MUSIC. ANNOUNCER: [Yesterday, last week, _________] we talked about community seed banks, and why it is important to save seeds from local varieties of crops. Some people put their savings in a bank. When they need extra money, they can take out their savings. This is the way most banks work. A seed…
Does your Community Need a Seed Bank?
ANNOUNCER: Most people think of a bank as a place to save money. Today we are going to talk about a different sort of bank, one that contains seeds, not money. It is a community seed bank. Why save seeds? Without seeds, crops will not grow. A wide selection of seeds protects a farmer’s investment…
Grow many different crops and crop varieties
Spot #1 Growing different varieties of crops is a good idea. Why? Well, if you grow only a few crops, and one or more of those crops fail, you might not have enough food for your family or to sell. But if you grow many different crops and crop varieties, you improve your chances. And…