Dagbani

Music video about farming soybean in Ghana. The Choggu Boys are singing a chorus about how the farmers are beating the rain and bring the soybean to market.

Music and lyrics: Choggu Boys

Film by: Anas Inusah and Raymond Vuol, produced and commissioned by CABI .

Grow row by row (cereals) is a 9 minute film that shows farmers are changing the way they intercrop their sorghum and millet with cowpea. By planting both crops at higher densities they are integrating Striga control and ISFM.

Striga biology explains how Striga, a parasitic weed, sucks nutrients from cereal crops especially millet, sorghum and maize and causes great yield losses.  ASHC supported Portuguese and Kiswahili translations of these films.

Animals and trees for better crops is a 12-minute film that explains the role of animals (manure) and trees in soil fertility as a means of tackling Striga. ASHC supported translations of Portuguese and Kiswahili versions.

This film is available in both French and Portuguese and summaries in both languages can be found by following the link at the top right of the home page.

Succeed with seeds is a 10-minute film that shows how a farmer field school learns to test sorghum varieties for Striga resistance and undertake participatory variety selection within an ISFM approach

Composting beats Striga is a 10 minute film that shows how farmers make compost as one of the strategies to combine the fight against the parasitic weed Striga with integrated soil fertility management (ISFM).

Storing cowpea seed explains the importance of drying to ensure cowpea seed is viable and explores approaches to stop cowpea beetle (weevil) infestation – including triple bagging and indigenous approaches.