another one
Those are some of the stories i have done and i am happy to share with you
Hello Hope @hpmafaranga
Nice stories. Please note that I have moved them to the cafe where people can talk about any other thing. In the weekly topics we specifically tackle the topic at hand so that we do not lose any contribution.
Cheers
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@Rehema here are some of my current favourite workout songs:
Halo - Beyonce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVUHWCynig
Titanium - David Guetta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfuAukYTKg
Gimme Sympathy - Metric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3-wZs64n4
Firework - Katy Perry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw
The Monster - Eminem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXXi19_7iE
The music definitely motivates me to get a good workout!
Thank you Hope for this!
By the way, i attended a 4 day meeting where Library For Food Sovereignty (an organ) is promoting indigenous knowledge to help local farmers who can not afford such modernity of Farms… They say local resources like herbal /medicinal plants can be extracted to get pesticides locally etc. They share a lot of indigenous knowledge and believe me i saw it in Kikwandwa by Kikandwa Development Initiative here in Uganda-Mityana district and it is doing well. Good indigenous knowledge by the local farmers…it is so amazing!
Sarah I have just returned from Addis in Ethiopia and farmers there are using high advanced technology to mitigate climate change challenges. Among what they are using is tissue culture while others have embraced biotechnology and GMOs as a measure to find a lasting solution of food security. I hope you know that Uganda has about three crops in the pipeline including banana, cassava and rice. The biggest challenge here is that the bill which is below parliament has not been passed into law hence making it hard for the scientists to implement such innovations.
I agree Hope but remember Scientists still are saying Biotech seeds also require good agronomic practices like climate change agric, soil and water conservation, application of manure etc
Of course Sarah embracing technology does not mean that other good farming practices have to be ignored. One thing to note is that those seeds are not magical or bullet prove. Other practices including irrigation, farm maintenance and management, weeding, pre and post harvest harvesting handling, use of pesticide or fertilizers, soil testing etc have to be observed.
Hi team.
I am really learning a lot from the comments.
Help me know the other approaches I can use to encourage the youth to venture into farming and how farmers can embrace modern farming.Very few have embraced it but most of them say it is very expensive.I am trying to use focus groups but sometimes the station budget does not allow. This is because the station is very far from our target audience and most listeners do not have access to internet,phones,power. Although I am trying to use groups,experts where possible.Thank you team.
Josephine, i wish you move this question to our Cafe and we discuss it there. I feel timid to discuss it here in Week Two discussions about Interactive Radio. If it is moved to Cafe, then will get back to you.
I wish you fruitful discussions on the platform.
Cheers,
Sarah Mawerere
UBC Radio
Kampala, Uganda
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Thank you Sarah @smawerere, I have moved the post to the relevant topic
@Josephine_Mdenyo hopefully we will get some responses to your question. We use the café to discuss anything outside our main discussion topic : interactive radio
Good all. Sorry for late arrival. Being busy all these weeks. My name is Lawal Ali Garba. A staff of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Kaduna National Station. Rose from Producer II in 1990 to Assistant Director in 2015. First joined the then Developing Countries Farming Radio Network in 2007. Participated at the forst organized Radio Scripting Writing Course on Healthy Communities in 2010. Wrote a script on Water and Sanitation in . I was also the team leader of Spinetails team forum during the Farmer Program e-Course in 2012. In 2014, I was appointed General Manager Radio Nigeria Equity FM, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Nigeria. A year later, I was transferred to Radio Nigeria Karama FM, Kaduna as the General Manager.
Though late, I’m happy to reconnect with you people. Before the end of the Discussion, I will make some contributions to the Discussions. Thanks once again.
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Dear Josephine, I would like to make contribution to your question of what approaches to use to make youth go into agriculture.
Actually, the youth do not appreciate agriculture & think agric is for old people, those in the village & for the uneducated! As a person who has handled agric programmes, it is true the youth do not go into agric for reasons that it is not paying, that it is hectic to do because of the rudmentary ways that farmers apply plus traditional tools used like the hand hoe. It is hectic! But for sure things are not the way the youth think. There are so many ways that can be applied to ease work. For example; use of machines, tractors for diggind and ploughing and even harvesting.
Let me share about an acivity (Agrikool) by Feed The Future- a USAID funded project here in Uganda now running in Mbale, Mubende & Gulu districts aimed at encouraging youth to engage in agric as business & yet it is an employment hub. Feed The Future goes to the mentioned pilot districts, holds events like; exhibitions, promotions, enterprenuership sessions and technical people to guide… rather advise the youth on how agric is a paying sector. Many youth are opting for agric after realizing that it is a good enterprise especially when they do it as business.
Also, Feed the Future tries to link the youth to organizations that can support them to do agric. Youth who are already doing it share their success stories & the youth are attracted to agric sector. Schools also participate in these activities by Feed the future…& many of them are already innovative at school & at home; they rear chicken, animals and every season they grow maize at home, plant banana, grind cereals & make flour,pans & bread which they are selling to get their own incomes to support themselves.
Through the livelihood government programme in Uganda, most youth are supported to do farming though this has some challenges now.
The youth are supported, they can do it especially when it is beneficial. They need to be sensitized through radio & on social media especially face book & whasApp network which they depend on for info.
There are so many approaches through which to encourage youth do agric.
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Thank you @smawerere.I’am trying to use social media and success stories from the youth.Picking up.