Bangladesh Radio Initiative 2022
This radio program contains five episodes that talk about varying topics in agriculture including cultivation of winter vegetables, fish farming, growing vegetables in residential areas, and livestock husbandry.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Radio Pollikontho
Production Language: Bangla
Program Title: Problems and Solutions in Cultivation of Winter Vegetables
Program Description: In this program, women farmers from Matarkapun village talk about vegetable farming during the winter season.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Radio Pollikontho
Production Language: Bangla
Program Title: Problems and Solutions in Fish Farming
Program Description: In this program, a farmer shares his experience in dealing with a disease causing the death of fish in his pond.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Radio Pollikontho
Production Language: Bangla
Program Title: Cultivation of Vegetables in the Courtyard of the Residential House
Program Description: Some women farmers of East Matarkapan village share the problems they experienced in household farming and animal husbandry.
Radio Name: Radio Pollikontho
Production Language: Bangla
Program Title: Problems and Solutions in Livestock Husbandry
Program Description: This episode showcases problems encountered in livestock husbandry and the solutions that can address these.
Date: November 5, 2022
Radio Name: Radio Pollikontho
Production Language: Bangla
Program Title: Problems and Solutions of Growing Vegetables in the Courtyard of the Residential House
Program Description: The program highlights the problems faced by women in planting vegetables in their gardens including the presence of insects cutting the roots of the plants and destroying them.
India Radio Initiative 2022
The India Radio Initiative is composed of five episodes that talks about financial problems, youth and agriculture, organic farming, government online portal, and the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio
Production Language: Hindi
Program Title: KISAN KAHE PUKAR KE-Financial Problem
Program Description: A farmer from a village in Mewat shares about how financial instability leads them to get loans on high interest from money lenders/Arthi.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio
Production Language: Hindi
Program Title: KISAN KAHE PUKAR KE-Youth and Agriculture
Program Description: This episode focuses on agriculture and what our youth think about it.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio
Production Language: Hindi
Program Title: KISAN KAHE PUKAR KE-Organic Farming
Program Description: A farmer from Haryana who has been doing organic farming since 2011 on his 12 acre field shares about Jaivik Kheti or Organic Farming.
Radio Name: Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio
Production Language: Hindi
Program Title: KISAN KAHE PUKAR KE-Meri Fasal Mera Byora Portal
Program Description: This episode gives detailed information about Mera Fasal Mera Byora which is an online portal launched by Haryana Government to provide the farmers of the state with multiple services through a single platform.
Date: November 5, 2022
Radio Name: Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio
Production Language: Hindi
Program Title: KISAN KAHE PUKAR KE-Issues Related to Fertilizers and Pesticides
Program Description: A farmer explains how fertilizer and pesticide works on crops.
Indonesia Radio Initiative 2022
This radio program contains episodes on young farmers, access to capital, farmers’ groups, family farming, and women farmers.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Merapi Merbabu Community FM
Production Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Program Title: Millennial Farmer
Program Description: The program highlights the importance of farming through an interview with a young farmer, who also talked about the challenges he faces including climate change and access to capital.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Merapi Merbabu Community FM
Production Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Program Title: Farmers’ Group
Program Description: This episode tackles the benefits of establishing farmers’ groups which include knowledge and information sharing on commodity prices and networking.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Merapi Merbabu Community FM
Production Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Program Title: Capital Access
Program Description: The program highlights the problems faced by farmers in relation to access to capital.
Radio Name: Merapi Merbabu Community FM
Production Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Program Title: Family Farming
Program Description: The program features an interview with Khairul Anam who is working as a family farming consultant at FAO where he explains family farming and its importance in the food and agriculture system.
Date: November 5, 2022
Radio Name: Merapi Merbabu Community FM
Production Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Program Title: Woman Farmer
Program Description: This program highlights the role of women farmers on the slopes of Merapi.
Nepal Radio Initiative 2022
The Nepal Radio Initiative tackles topics including plan and policy of the local government, youth in agriculture, agricultural insurance, subsidy and agriculture loan, and women empowerment.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Krishi Radio
Production Language: Nepali
Program Title: Sanakisan Aawaj ‘Voice of Small Farmers’ (Plan and Policy of the Local Government)
Program Description: This episode discusses the agriculture policy implemented by Dhunibeshi Municipality and Thakre Municipality in Dhading district and the subsidies and facilities made available by the municipalities.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Krishi Radio
Production Language: Nepali
Program Title: Sanakisan Aawaj ‘Voice of Small Farmers’ (Youth in Agriculture)
Program Description: This episode discusses youth engagement in Agriculture and includes a success story of a young farmer.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Krishi Radio
Production Language: Nepali
Program Title: Sanakisan Aawaj ‘Voice of Small Farmers’ (Agriculture Insurance)
Program Description: The episode discusses how natural calamities affect agriculture and husbandry and how agriculture insurance can help out the farmers.
Radio Name: Krishi Radio
Production Language: Nepali
Program Title: Sanakisan Aawaj ‘Voice of Small Farmers’ (Subsidy and Agriculture Loan)
Program Description: This episode shares the various efforts/initiatives of local and federal governments to help farmers with modern agriculture by providing subsidies for loans and agricultural equipment.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Krishi Radio
Production Language: Nepali
Program Title: Sanakisan Aawaj ‘Voice of Small Farmers’ (Women’s Empowerment)
Program Description: This episode talks about women empowerment and the issues women face at small farmers’ level.
The Philippines Radio Initiative 2022
The Radio Initiative of the Philippines discusses varying topics including the life of a farmworker and the issues being faced of this sector, the practice of communal farming, the use of reaper harvesters that threatens the livelihood of the family farmworkers, and how farmworkers were deprived of being enrolled in the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Radyo Natin Guimba
Production Language: Filipino/Tagalog
Program Title: Buhay ng Manggagawang Bukid
Program Description: This episode talks about the life of a farmworker and the issues he faces.
Date: November 5, 2022
Radio Name: Radyo Natin Guimba
Production Language: Filipino/Tagalog
Program Title: Magsasakang Naging Manggagawang Bukid
Program Description: Boy tells about the hardship of being a family farmer who owns a small piece of land.
Date: November 4, 2022
Radio Name: Radyo Natin Guimba
Production Language: Filipino/Tagalog
Program Title: Communal Farming
Program Description: This episode explores how communal farming can be a viable source of livelihood.
Radio Name: Radyo Natin Guimba
Production Language: Filipino/Tagalog
Program Title: Buwis ng Reaper Harvester
Program Description: This program discusses how the influx of reaper harvesters in the municipality continue to threaten the livelihood of the family farmworkers.
Date: November 5, 2022
Radio Name: Radyo Natin Guimba
Production Language: Filipino/Tagalog
Program Title: RSBSA
Program Description: This episode features the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) which holds the list of names of individuals in the agricultural sectors and serves as the basis to be recognized by the government and how farmworkers, who comprises the greater number in agriculture, were deprived of being enrolled in the system.