Nigeria: Farmers use watering cans to grow maize during dry season
It’s early in the morning and very cold. Abbas Jaafaru Julde is already awake and in his maize field busy […]
Producing healthy plantain and banana suckers
This video produced by Access Agriculture provides information about how to produce healthy banana and plantain suckers. From one bulb, […]
Rehabilitating cocoa plantations
Like our Farmer story from Cote d’Ivoire, our Script of the Week focuses on practices to keep cocoa plantations healthy. […]
Nigeria: High cost of inputs forces farmers to recycle maize seed
It’s a bright sunny Friday morning around 10 o’clock. Muhammad Rabilu is weeding his maize field, using a small knife […]
Benin: Farmer processes new oil palm varieties for a good income
It is almost seven in the morning. Daylight shines through the dissipating fog. Séraphin Hounongbé walks to his palm grove, […]
Zimbabwe: Poor prices force farmers to switch from cotton to bird’s eye chilies
For Caritas Dube, growing cotton for export used to feel like winning a lottery. Prices were good and the 70-year-old […]
Tanzania: Farmers start growing cassava as a cash crop because of high demand
It’s evening, but Joram Mikanda is still in his field, checking to see if his cassava has matured enough to […]
Organic cotton helps the soil and the community
Like this week’s Farmer story from Senegal, our Script of the week talks about growing a crop organically. The Beninese […]
DRC: Farmers say growing high-end coffee doesn’t pay (Global Press Journal)
Although coffee is the most widely grown crop in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Justine Mwaka cut down her […]
Organic cotton helps the soil and the community
This week’s Farmer story from Tanzania highlights some of the benefits of organic farming. Our Script of the week continues […]