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Raise your Own Fish Fingerlings

January 1, 1995

Keeping fish in your rice fields reduces weeds and insects. Fish manure fertilizes rice and increases rice yield. Fish is also a nutritious and tasty food for you and your family. If you want to raise fish with your rice you need a supply of young fish. Today we will talk about how you can…

Raise Fish in the Rice Paddy

January 1, 1995

Rice paddies have lots of natural food for fish. This is one of the advantages of raising fish and rice together. Fish help the farmer by eating weeds and insects in the paddy field. And they fertilize the rice with their manure. On top of all this fish is a nutritious food for your family….

Fish are Good for your Rice and Good for You

January 1, 1995

Reduce your weed and insect problems by keeping fish in your paddy fields. Fish feed on small weeds and insects that live in the field. Fish manure fertilizes rice and increases rice yield. And fish is a nutritious and tasty food for the family. It does not cost you much to keep fish in your…

Use Chili Peppers to Control Pests

October 1, 1994

Content : Chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) can be used to make a spray or dust to control pests. All over the world farmers and gardeners use chili peppers instead of commercial pesticides. Make a spray for field and garden crops You can make an effective pest control spray from chili peppers, water and soap. Chop…

Groundnut (Peanut) Hay is Good Feed in the Dry Season

October 1, 1994

If you feed your animals well in the dry season they are ready for the hard work of cultivating the fields when the rains come. And good feeding all year round helps your cows produce more milk. It also helps them produce young ones more often. It’s the same with other animals too. Animal feed…

Protect Tomatoes from Frost

October 1, 1994

Save and edit this resource as a Word document. You can grow tomatoes even in cold weather. A farmer in Zimbabwe, Mr. Francis Handwa, uses cooking oil or milk bottles filled with water to keep tomato plants warm. This is a good alternative to covering tomatoes if used bottles are easy to get. Here is…

Hints

October 1, 1994

Banana trunks: a treasure for your garden in the dry season Zingui Messomo Xavier Communications Officer INADES Formation Cameroon Some farmers in Cameroon found a use for banana trunks after harvest. They put cut up banana trunks between the rows of vegetable crops such as tomatoes, lettuce, and cabbage. As they decompose, the banana trunks…

Grow and Eat Nutritious Yams

October 1, 1994

In the Pacific, the yam is a popular and important food crop. In some places yams are eaten every day, particularly when they are in season. In other places yams are eaten only on special occasions. No matter how and when they are used, yams are recognised for their delicious flavour and cultural values. They…

Improve Straw for Livestock Feed

October 1, 1994

Do you burn your straw because you think it is useless? By treating straw with ashes you can make ash straw which is a good livestock feed. Livestock that eat ash straw will gain more weight and be healthier. By itself, straw is a poor feed for animals because it is hard to digest and…

Liquid manure is good fertilizer

October 1, 1994

You can tell how much plant food a soil contains by simply looking at the colour of crops in a field. Some field crops look green while some are yellowish. Green crops show that the soil has enough plant food. A yellow crop usually indicates that the soil does not have enough plant food. Every…