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Growing community: Conservation agriculture over the airwaves
Matefie Meja is a single mother of three who farms a half-hectare of land in Chifisa, Ethiopia. It’s intensive work. As she has no ox…
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Radio provides a helping hand in the tricky work of raising guinea fowl
Elizabeth Webonga, 38, has been raising guinea fowl in Manyoro, in Ghana’s Upper East Region, for 20 years. In the past, she would typically only…
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This rice farmer’s yield set to multiply tenfold thanks to radio
With files courtesy of Mark Kudafa Elvis Asare takes a radio broadcaster through his farm. He gestures to his recently harvested rice field, golden…
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Voices from the field: Doris Asantewaa, Ghana
Farming and harvesting crops are not the only things farmers in Brong-Ahafo Region struggle with. For farmers like Doris Asantewaa , storing maize can be…
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Voices from the field: Bonder Conda, Ghana
Bonder Conda was sceptical when he first heard a radio program on Atobo FM mention that using improved seeds would result in higher yields on…
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Voices from the field: Maame Ablore, Ghana
Despite having been farming for a “lifetime,” Maame Ablore is not against trying new things. When she heard the voice of another female farmer on…
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Voices from the field: Kofi Asamoah, Ghana
Sometimes the smallest changes can make the biggest differences. For Kofi Asamoah, that change was as simple as digging a small hole to place his…
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Voices from the field: Kano Sikple, Ghana
Every Monday evening Kano Sikple turns on her radio set, certain in the knowledge that she is about to learn something useful. “I know that every…
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Voices from the field: Ishmael Kontor, Ghana
Farmer Ishmael Kontor of Ghana demonstrates the row-planting method he learned about over the radio. When Ishmael Kontor, 68, retired back to his village of Techiman…
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Voices from the field: Ruth Yeaboah, Ghana
“The bigger the land the higher the yield,” was what Ruth Yeaboah believed — at least until she started listening to the Agrotech program on Astor…
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