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Local farmers find ways to scale-up conservation agriculture to larger areas
MUSIC:SIGTUNE, THEN FADE UNDER HOST HOST: Hello and welcome to our farming program on Radio ___. I will be your host today as we travel to Chihanga village in the central region of Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania. Chihanga is one of the five villages in the city where farmers are using conservation agriculture….
Beans, a family affair: A drama about women growing and marketing common beans — Part 5
1. Scene 1 2. Location: Ext. Sigi’s warehouse. Evening. 3. BG SFX: Warehouse ambience. 4. Characters: Sigi, Afande Kaifa, Afande Filipo, Farmer. 5. SIGI: I assure you this is the best deal you’ll ever get! 6. FARMER: Come on, Sigi! That is a very low price for all these sacks! 7. SIGI: That is my…
Beans, a family affair: A drama about women growing and marketing common beans — Part 4
1. Scene 1 2. Location: Ext. Farida’s house. Morning. 3. BG SFX: Ambience at Farida’s house. 4. Characters: Farida, Jenny. 5. SFX: HEAVY KNOCKS ON THE DOOR. 6. FARIDA: (APPROACHING MIC) I’m coming! I’m coming! 7. SFX: FARIDA OPENS THE DOOR. 8. FARIDA: (SURPRISED) Jenny! Aren’t you supposed to be at the garage? 9. SFX:…
Beans, a family affair: A drama about women growing and marketing common beans — Part 3
1. Scene 1 2. Location: Ext. Factory. Morning. 3. BG SFX: Truck horn blowing. 4. Characters: Farida, Stella, Sigi, watchman. 5. SFX: TRUCK HORN BLOWING INCESSANTLY. 6. SIGI: (FAR FROM MIC, SHOUTING) Hey you! Open the gate already! (IRRITATED) Alaaa! 7. WATCHMAN: (HURRIED) Coming, sir. 8. SFX: GATE IS OPENED AND TRUCK APPROACHES MIC. 9….
Beans, a family affair: A drama about women growing and marketing common beans — Part 2
1. Scene 1 2. Location: Int. Afande Kaifa’s office-police station. Morning. 3. BG SFX: Afande Kaifa snoring. 4. Characters: Afande Kaifa, Mzee Kaifa, Afande Filipo. 5. SFX: AFANDE KAIFA SNORING. 6. SFX: KNOCKS ON THE DOOR. 7. AFANDE KAIFA: (ANGRILY) What is it now? 8. AFANDE FILIPPO: (OPENS DOOR) Your father is here to see…
Beans, a family affair: A drama about women growing and marketing common beans — Part 1
1. Scene 1 2. Location: Ext. Road. Morning. 3. BG SFX: Sound of car engine and music inside car. 4. Characters: Jenny, Mr. Patel, boy. 5. SFX: SOUND OF CAR ENGINE AND MUSIC INSIDE CAR. 6. SFX: MR. PATEL HUMMING ALONG TO MUSIC. 7. SFX: CAR MAKES A BLASTING SOUND. 8. MR PATEL: (ALARMED) Uh…
Rehabilitating cocoa plantations
HOST: Hello, listeners. It’s another exciting week of farm broadcast, and today we will discuss a very important cash crop in Ghana—cocoa! My name is Nadia and I have here, Mr. Theophilus Osei Owusu, the deputy director at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, or MoFA. He will tell us all that he knows about…
Fall armyworm
NOTE: This information was updated in May 2018. A. Introduction. The Fall armyworm, which has the scientific name of Spodoptera frugiperda, is a major pest of staple crops. The larvae (caterpillars) prefer feeding on young maize plants, but have also been reported to feed on a variety of other crops, including millet, sorghum, rice, wheat,…
Careful preparation makes its own luck: Land preparation for fava beans
HOST:Welcome to (name of radio program). Today, we are visiting Bakelo kebele, a community in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia just outside the capital, Addis Ababa. We will be talking about fava beans, which is appropriate since in Amharic—one of the major languages of Ethiopia—“bakela” means “fava”! It’s the first week of June and it’s…
How growing okra serves women in Bakay Wèrè
HOST: Hello, dear listeners. Today, we’re going to meet okra growers from Bakay Wèrè village, in the Office du Niger zone of Mali. We will learn how okra production and the okra market are progressing, and what benefits farmers can enjoy by growing this vegetable. Bakay Wèrè is a village in Niono cercle, in…