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Storing dairy fodder for the dry season increases farmers’ income

Like this week’s Farmer story from Senegal and this week’s Resource, our Script of the week focuses on the dairy sector.

Dairy farming is an important agricultural enterprise in Kenya. It provides milk for consumption, improving nutrition. Farmers can earn income from selling milk and calves. There are also many related industries, including transporting milk, providing artificial insemination services, making dairy equipment, producing fodder, and providing financial services.

This script describes how to store high quality fodder for dairy cattle by making hay and silage during the wet season. During the rains, farmers often have more fodder than they need, which is often wasted or kept in farms until the quality deteriorates. By cutting and conserving fodder, farmers can plant and harvest a second time or put the land to other uses.

This script is based on actual interviews. You could use it as inspiration to research and write a script on a similar topic in your area. Or you might choose to produce this script on your station, using voice actors to represent the speakers. If so, please make sure to tell your audience at the beginning of the program that the voices are those of actors, not the original people involved in the interviews.

You could also use the script as research material or as inspiration for creating your own programming on the benefits of storing fodder. Talk to dairy farmers, agricultural officers, and other experts. You might ask them:

You can also use these questions for a phone-in or text-in program.

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