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Improved Fallows Provide Benefits for Farmers
SOUND OF RUNNING FOOTSTEPS. Farmer 1: (upset) Sam, Sam are you there? Come quickly… someone is occupying my field! Farmer 2: Hello neighbour! What’s the problem? You say someone is occupying your field? Farmer 1: I was just coming home from town – passing my fields – when I noticed something peculiar. The field that…
Improved fallows for African farmers
What is the difference between a natural fallow and an improved fallow? Natural fallow is simply land resting from cultivation. Usually it is left to natural vegetation for a long period to restore soil fertility. Improved fallow is also land resting from cultivation, but the farmer plants leguminous trees, shrubs and/or herbaceous cover crops on…
Nature is Never Naked: The Importance of Mulch
SIGNATURE TUNE Narrator: How are you farmers and listeners today? Today we are going to hear a program that comes to you from “The Story Workshop” in Blantyre, Malawi. SIGNATURE TUNE UP AND THEN DOWN UNDER. Narrator: Today’s program is called “The river floods with water from the streams”. This traditional proverb means that each…
Farmers who use improved fallows must replace phosphorous in soils
Characters In this program, the hosts are named Onyango and Rose. Please use names that your audience will relate to and recognize. Rose is very knowledgeable on the topics of agriculture and agroforestry. Onyango is also very keen and asks many good questions, but sometimes seems impatient. The two have a playful way of responding…
“When it rains”: The role of trees in preventing soil erosion
“When it rains” Part 1 Start of program BRING UP MUSIC AND CROSS FADE INTO EFFECT. CRICKET SOUNDS IN THE DISTANCE. HEAVY WINDS BLOWING. A CRACK OF THUNDER AND THEN HEAVY RAIN. HOLD THE RAIN FOR 3 SECONDS. Keke: (Yawning) Nothing like the morning after a rain. I can not only feel, but smell the…
Share Farming Knowledge with Your Children
Characters: Host Daughter Mother INTRO. MUSIC. Host: Have you ever thought about how you learned to cultivate and harvest crops? You probably learned most of what you know about farming and survival from your parents. You are about to hear a story of a mother who understood the value of her own knowledge and experience….
The Importance of Security Crops
BRING UP MUSIC AND HOLD UNDER NARRATOR. Narrator: It is surprising how different two sisters can be. Two people who have grown up in the same country, the same village, and the same family. Today’s program shows how the choices that a farmer makes can sometimes mean the difference between survival and despair. FADE OUT…