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Media coverage

Date 2 April 2012
Type Newspaper - Daily News
Headline: Premier touts promotion of indigenous poultry farming

Date 2 April 2012
Type Newspaper - On-line Guardian
Headline: Large-scale indigenous chicken rearing project launched
Author: Alpha Nuhu

Date 30 March 2012
Type Newspaper - Citizen Newspaper
Journalist Fariji Msonsa
Headline: PM says poultry has potential of transforming household income

Commericalise the poultry industry - PM tells ministry

Date December 2010 - January 2011
Type Radio
Station Clouds FM
Notes Power Breakfast (morning show 6am - 9am) Jahazi (evening show 4pm - 7pm)
RIU funded the media campaign to raise awareness of its poultry activities. Station national listenership of 12% (source: Clouds FM State of the Market). Available in 15 regions in mainland Tanzania. In Dar es Salaam the station reaches about 90% of people aged between 18-35 years (source: Synovate 2009 Media Survey)

With Gerald Hando, Barbara Hassan and Ephraim Kibonde

Date December 2010
Type A series of comics produced in Kiswahili based on stories from poultry farmers in Coast region by Tanzanian Zumba Pius
Titles 5 titles:
Migodi ya Dhahabu
Inawezekana
Je wajua?
Maarifa
Danda Bora
Notes Raising awareness of poultry husbandry and success stories from Coast region
Audience: poultry keepers and other farmers

Date 18 December 2009
Type Newspaper
Source The Guardian
Notes RIU indigenous poultry project - commercialising indigenous chicken production. Featured, 1/8 of a page
Impact The Guardian is the most widely circulating English language newspaper in Tanzania - positive coverage

Date 18 December 2009
Type Newspaper
Source The African
Notes RIU indigenous poultry project - commercialising indigenous chicken production. 1/4 of a page

Date 28 December 2009
Type Newspaper
Source The Citizen
Notes RIU indigenous poultry project - commercialising indigenous chicken production. 1/2 of a page

Date 24 December 2009
Type Newspaper
Source Mwananchi
Notes RIU indigenous poultry project, commercialising indigenous chicken production. 1/2 of a page

Date 24 December 2009
Type Television
Source ITV (Independent Television)
Notes 2 minutes on local news, 7pm




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