It is now a month since I started working from home.
The experience has taught me time management and patience with my children as I have to be a teacher sometimes.
My day starts at 6am with a morning run or exercises for about 20 to 30 minutes.
After, I prepare breakfast for the family. By 8am, I have to send at least two story ideas for the daily docket.
To get the stories, I interview experts and other sources over the phone.
Having a good rapport with experts has been a massive advantage as they are always ready to comment when called.
I also research a lot online to get new information on what is happening in the agriculture sector.
The main problem is that many of the agricultural events, innovations or research happen in the farms.
With the lockdown, there is no movement in the rural areas and most of the stakeholders in the agriculture sector have scaled-down activities due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
So once again I have to rely on and trust experts to get information.
This is not always positive because some of them claim that there is not much happening so they cannot comment.
Nevertheless, the training I have received in sourcing stories from reports and research papers has come in handy.
I have been able to get a few good stories on topics like the locust invasion from reports.
(edited by o. owino)
