Mangoes were introduced to Mali at the beginning of the 20th century. Mango farming has now been developing for years in the south of the country, in Sikasso and Koulikoro, regions with high agricultural potential. Mango is grown during the rainy season.
The post-harvest process for mango includes activities that can be classified into two categories: technical activities such as harvesting, sorting, washing, packaging/storage, and processing, and economic activities and issues such as transportation, marketing, quality control, nutrition, and extension.
For this radio script, three people were interviewed, including the expert Oumar Assarki, technical advisor for the mango value chain at the GIZ-led Green Innovation Center; Keletigui Berthe, mango producer and Chairman of the Local Union of Mango Producers’ Associations of Sikasso; and Halassane Kone, a second producer in the Sikasso region.
The expert and the farmers speak about the challenges they face in post-harvest mango activities, and the solutions to those challenges.
This script could serve as inspiration for a program on post-harvest mango activities on your station. If you decide to use it in your farming program, you could use voice actors or colleagues to represent the actual people interviewed for the script. If so, please inform your audience at the beginning of the program that these are the voices of voice actors and colleagues, and not those of the actual interviewees.
If you want to produce programs on post-harvest activities in mango, talk to mango farmers, experts, and other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain.
You could ask them the following questions, for example:
- What are the difficulties encountered in post-harvest activities?
- How can these difficulties be solved?
Estimated duration of the radio script with music, intro and extro: 20 minutes
https://scripts.farmradio.fm/radio-script/post-harvest-mango-activities-organic-mango-production-mechanization-using-renewable-energy/?swpmtx=80cd3b16dc55b49270448eb310d8dc2f&swpmtxnonce=4eaec7d9e8: Post-harvest mango activities, organic mango production, mechanization, and using renewable energy [1]