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2023
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Belle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 1: Cassava and Rice Farming
Group of women farmers are in conversation with the producer discussing Cassava & rice farming and how it is helping them. They told the producer that they initially planted rice and after harvest, they also planted cassava as a group and also do separate farming as individuals. The group leader says that her group uses the money they make from farming to send their children to school and cater to other family responsibilities.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Belle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 2: Cowpea/bean farming
A family farmer is in conversation with a Belle language producer, he tells him how he is involved with vegetable farming. He says his focus is on growing beans (cowpea). He usually harvests the beans, sell it and the sale enables him to get money to send his children to school, buy clothes for wearing and also for the family's upkeep. He says that doing large-scale farming is expensive as all the events surrounding it are cost-intensive.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Belle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 3: Intercropping
Group of women farmers in the Belle District involved in Rice and Cocoa farming having conversation with the producer. They are discussing the rice farming for consumption, and the cocoa farms bring them more income that they use for the well-being of the farm. But they are challenged with several issues, including the lack of support from government, and the lack of motorcar roads to connect their farms to market.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Belle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 4: Intercropping
A group of farmers in the Belle District involved in Rice and vegetable farming having a conversation with the producer. They are discussing the rice farming for consumption, and the vegetable farms bring them more income that they use for the well-being of the farm. But they are challenged with several issues, including the lack of support from government, and the lack of motorcar roads to connect their farms to market.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Kpelle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 5: Cassava and rice farming
A women farming group is in conversation with producer Tokpa Mulbah; the head of the group tells Tokpa that they are in a farming group (Cassava & rice farming) to help each other. She told Tokpa that they plant rice initially and after harvest, they also plant cassava as a group and also do separate farming as individuals. She says that her group uses the money they make from farming to send their children to school and cater to other family responsibilities.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Kpelle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 6: Cow pea/bean farming
A family farmer Nowai Blackie in conversation with Kpelleh producer Tokpa Mulbah tells him that she’s involved with beans, pepper, okra and bitter ball farming. She said her larger focus in aim at beans (cow pea). Nowai says the harvest from the beans is commercialize and enable her use some of the money to send her children to school, buy clothes for wearing and also for the family up keep. She told producer Tokpa in her Kpelleh vernacular that large scale farming sis expensive as all the event surrounding it is cost intensive.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Kpelle
Production Year: 2023
Programme 7: Intercropping
Family Farmer Joe F. Tokpa is a farmer in Gbanway town in Salayea district, Lofa County, he told producer Tokpa Mulbah that he and his family are involved in Rice and Cocoa farming for two separate reasons. He said, they do rice farming for consumption, while vegetables planted in the rice is use for socio-economic priorities. Joe says the harvest from the Cocoa farm is use for his family upkeep and his children’s education.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Lorma
Production Year: 2023
Programme 8: Peanut and Cassava Farming
In Borkeza Town, Zeayeama clan, Zorzor District, Yassah Gbo told producer Henry Gayflor that she is a member of a farming group that is generally involved in ground nut (peanut) and cassava farming. She said they do cassava and peanut farming as women group because they do not have money to do general rice farming. According to Yassah members of her group individually do household farming, but their group as a unit is exclusively into groundnut and cassava farming. She narrated that monies generated from the sale of the groundnut and cassava is divided amongst its member at the end of every farming year which help them pay their children school fees.
Another member of the group is Krubo Zogbo who told Henry that individually she is into rice farming; she said rice farming is expensive for her because she’s doing it all alone without man, and as that she spend a lots of money to hire manpower to enable her do the job. She wants the government of Liberia to formulate an agriculture program that will help women farming groups for productive sustainability.
Yama Zaimah another member of the farming group complained to Henry that the only means of sending her child to school as a single parent is through rice farming which is very expensive to do, as the obligation to brush, cut down the trees, and clear the farm lies in men strength which requires hiring them. She wants the government and Agriculture institutions to aid them with finance to do alternative farming for sustainable empowerment.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Lorma
Production Year: 2023
Programme 9: Financial Gain (Rice, Peas and Cassava)
A women's farming group in Wuomai town Bluyeama clan, Zorzor District told producer James Wolobah that they are involved in Rice, peanut and cassava farming as a group and individually. They said, the Rice, cassava and peanut harvest are commercialized and use the money to send their children to school and attend to other family needs. They called on farming organizations to help their group with farming tools including hoes, cutlass and cooking utensils.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Lorma
Production Year: 2023
Programme 10: Women vegetable farmers
In Zelemai the Wenlai (Love) women farming group is involved in peanut farming generally and individually. According to them the harvest from the peanut farming is sold on the market while the money acquired is used to help one another during difficult times, while the individual farms proceed is used to finance their children’s school fees. They want the government of Liberia and its Agriculture partners to help them with farming tools including cutlass, hoes including groundnuts for the expansion of their farm.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Mandingo
Production Year: 2023
Programme 11: Farm Practices
Hija is a local farmer in Borkeza Town in the Zeayeama clan, Zorzor district; she is a member of a farming group that is involved in rice farming annually. According to Haija, every member of her group has a rice farm that they harvest for family consumption and socio-economy purposes. She told producer Fofee Fofana that they sell some of the rice to enable them to cater to their children’s school fees and medical conditions.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Mandingo
Production Year: 2023
Programme 12: Farming and it's Benefits (Rice and Groundnut Farmers)
Massa Fofana is the head of a women's farming kou group in Zelemen Town in Zorzor District, she tells producer Fofee Fofana that her group is involved in helping one another in the cultivation of rice and groundnut farming periodically. She said the proceeds from the rice and peanut farming are used for consumption and socio-economic reasons (send their children to school) and sometimes use some in contribution to town festivals.
Radio Station: Radio Life
Producer Organization: NUCFDC
Production Language: Mandingo
Production Year: 2023
Programme 13: Vegetable Farming
Madusu is a local farmer who is involved in Okra, bitter ball and pepper farming; Madusu told Fofee that the money generated from the pepper, Okra and bitter ball sales is used to buy rice for consumption as she’s unable to make rice farm on her own. According to Madusu, with the help of the money she generates from farming, she’s sending her children to private schools in Monrovia including University. Madusu says she’s also preserving some of the pepper, bitter ball and okra for market high-demand purposes during the dry season.