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VITA Volunteers In Technical Assistance: Safe Food Storage Part 1
VITA stands for Volunteers In Technical Assistance.It is a private, U.S. nonprofit organization that supports people working on technical problems in developing countries. With information and other assistance, VITA helps individuals and groups select and implement technologies appropriate to their situations. Today’s topic is safe food storage, and we will be offering listeners information about…
Save Soil on Sloping Fields
Conserve soil on sloping maize fields by digging ditches along the contours and filling them with maize stalks. The ditches stop soil from washing away and the soil and maize stalks make a compost which improves soil quality. This method also helps control white grubs. Losing soil is a problem for farmers who must plant…
Santa Lucia Co-operative Gardens
A few years ago, a group of women in the village of Santa Lucia thought of a way to solve a problem that had them all worried. They were concerned that their children were not eating well. Santa Lucia is in a rugged, hilly area in Nicaragua, in Central America. Most of the people who…
Reining in Rats
Wherever there are people, there are rats, because wherever people live, they store food. Stored food – especially grain – draws rats. But you can stop rats from stealing your food. The first thing to do is to make it difficult for the rats to get at your stored food. The best way to do…
Raise Your Own Plants for Green Manure Crops
Annual plants for green manure crops are easy to grow from seed. But propagating perennials (trees and shrubs that live for many years) from seed can be slow. A faster way to propagate some perennials is to use stem cuttings‑‑that is, pieces of branches cut from mature plants or trees. You can plant them in…
Protect Stored Beans from Weevils
Today we are going to talk about a couple of ways you can prevent bean weevils from damaging stored beans. We will talk about adding ashes or vegetable oil to the beans in storage. The very first step is to determine whether or not it is even necessary to use pest control. In other words,…
Integrated pest management
No. 1: What is a pest? What is a pest? A pest is a creature that damages crops. And one of the most important things a farmer can learn is that not all insects are pests. Many insects eat other insects. They are called beneficial or friendly insects, because they help control the insects that DO…
When is an Insect a Pest?
What does the word “pest” mean to you? Many farmers think that all insects are pests. Here is a different idea about pests. An insect becomes a pest only when it damages enough of your crop to make you lose money. It is at this time when you should consider using a pest control method….
What is Integrated Pest Management?
These days many farmers use only one type of pest control. Many use only chemical pesticides. But using only pesticides can cause problems. At first, you might find that chemical pesticides work well. But pesticides do not only kill bad pests: they also kill many of the good or friendly insects which eat the pests. …
Traditional, Hybrid, and Improved Crops
Some of the crops you grow have probably been important in your region for generations. There are good reasons to keep on planting these traditional crops. Traditional crops are adapted to local growing conditions. A crop does well in a particular region because it has qualities that help it survive the conditions it faces there. …