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Harvesting fruit the easy way By Livai Matarirano, Zimbabwe Harvesting fruit from tall trees can be a problem. Some people ask young children to climb the trees and harvest ripe fruit. If the children don’t have a basket they throw the fruit to the ground. The child may fall and injure a leg or hand…
Groundnut (Peanut) Hay is Good Feed in the Dry Season
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…
Improve Straw for Livestock Feed
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…
Rabbits are a Good Source of Low Fat Protein – Part 2: Breeding rabbits and taking care of them
If you have to buy meat, or if you’d like to earn some extra money, think about raising rabbits. Rabbits are popular because they have lots of babies that grow quickly into big rabbits that you can eat. One healthy doe, can produce five litters of six rabbits each year. That is about 30 kilograms…
Rabbits are a Good Source of Low Fat Protein – Part 1: Building a Rabbit Hutch
If you have to buy meat, or if you’d like to earn some extra money, think about raising rabbits. Rabbits are popular because they have lots of babies that grow quickly into big rabbits that you can eat. One healthy doe, can produce five litters each year. That is about 30 kilograms of meat a…
Muscovy Ducks are Easy to Raise and they Control Flies
If you are looking for poultry that is easy to care for, resists disease, and controls flies at the same time, then Muscovy ducks are a good choice for you. They are healthy and hardy, they forage well for their own food, and reproduce easily. And they do a great job controlling flies. Muscovy meat…
Grow Your Own Living Fence
Save and edit this resource as a Word document Living fences are rows of trees or shrubs planted together to form a barrier. They are useful for farmers who need fences to mark boundaries, separate fields, keep animals from straying, form windbreaks, or support vines. Living fences are a good choice for many reasons. They…
Good Cow Feed for all Seasons
Content: Silage is good cow feed at times of the year when other feed is scarce. There may be times of the year when you run out of fodder to feed your cow. Some farmers in India solve this problem by making silage. It takes a little planning, but it means that their cows are…
Produce Clean, Safe Milk
Is the milk we get from our animals always safe to drink? The answer, unfortunately, is no. Milk spoils easily. And sometimes milk can carry diseases. There are two steps in making sure the milk you get from your animals is wholesome. One is to keep the milking process absolutely clean. The second way is…
VITA Volunteers in Technical Assistance: Safe Food Storage Part 2
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…