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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…
Keep Your cattle in good condition with poultry manure
We often hear nurses and village health workers talk about eating nutritious foods. Energy‑giving foods give us the strength to work and exercise. Body‑building foods help us repair damaged body tissue. Vitamins and minerals protect us from disease. Cattle are like us: they need nutritious food to keep healthy. Many farmers have trouble keeping their…
Profit from Raising Rabbits in the City
Content: Keep rabbits in the city and profit from their meat, skin, fur, and dung. You can sell rabbits in the market to earn money, and eat rabbit meat to improve your family’s diet. Rabbits do not take up much space, they have lots of babies, and they are cheap and easy to feed. So…
A Woman Farmer Practises Zero Grazing
Which is better? One healthy cow or five skinny, sick cows? Which will make more money for the owner? One healthy cow or five scrawny, sick cows? Many small-scale farmers think that it is better to put more work into keeping one animal well-fed and healthy than to keep a number of animals that fend…
Make the Most of Trees: Trees as Fenceposts and Trees in Pasture
Today we have two ideas for you from Guatemalan farmers about uses for trees that might be new to you. These are ideas that are especially useful for farmers who don’t have lots of land for tree planting, but who know how important it is to plant trees on the farm. As we all know,…
How to Prevent Thin Egg Shells
Do your hens lay eggs with thin shells or no shells at all? Usually the older birds in your flock are the ones that lay eggs with thin shells. They are the birds which have been laying eggs for a long time. The eggshell is the hard, inedible part of an egg. It gives shape…
Keep Baby Chicks Warm
By keeping a few chickens in your backyard you get protein from eggs and meat. And you can make extra money by selling the eggs or meat. In fact, you might start thinking about increasing the number of birds you have and making a business of selling eggs and meat. First of all, decide how…
Using Traditional Patterns of Lending and Borrowing Livestock
Harvey Harman has studied many traditional practices of farmers in Transkei, South Africa. One of them is the practice of lending farm animals to family members and neighbours. Harvey tells us that it works like this. A farmer lends some livestock to a neighbour. This person, the borrower, takes care of these animals until they…
A few farming hints
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. A. Snails as fish feed and fertilizer Lung Chieng is a farmer in northeastern Thailand. He has fishponds on his farm and grows fruit trees on the bunds that separate the ponds. Many snails live beside the ponds in the moist areas under the fruit trees….
The Wang Wun Shi family farm: A success story. (Part B)
HOST: After only four years of establishing his own family farm, Wang Wun Shi has become a model farmer in the central part of Sichuan province in the People’s Republic of China. When he started out, he and his family had no money, but they did have plenty of ambition and a willingness to work…