Access Agriculture is an international NGO which showcases agricultural training videos in local languages. One of their latest series of videos explores onions, offering practical information and techniques that can prove useful to farmers at all steps in the production process, and even in making better profits when their produce is brought to market. The new series of 6 onion videos can be found here.
All videos are freely downloadable, also in 3GP format for mobile phone viewing and easy sharing between farmers. With each video there is also an accompanying one-page fact sheet that can be printed and left in the community where the videos are shown. The fact sheet also contains contact details for people to get in touch with IFDC for more technical info.
Folowing the list of fact sheets on onions:
How to make a fertile soil for onions
A related blog story entitled Onions from Agadez, on the Agro-Insight blog, examines the challenges that onion producers in West Africa have faced as seed monopolies and climate volatility have threatened their livelihoods.
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