Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for - Aseanipm ...

Section 3 • Living Soil, Integrated Soil Nutrient and Crop Managements
learning objectives
• To make participants aware of and understand how appropriate cultural management practices
in relation to growth stages of head- and curd-forming organic vegetables can improve
productivity and profitability; and
• To learn innovative cultural management practices in relation to growth stages of head- and
curd-forming organic vegetables from other farmers.
materials
• Head- and curd-forming vegetables organically-grown in learning and adjoining fields; and
• Office supplies (e.g., Manila papers, notebooks, ball pens, and marking pens)
methodology
• Field walks and brainstorming
steps
1. Divide participants in small groups and ask them to conduct field walks and observe different
stages of head- and curd-forming vegetables organically grown in learning and adjoining fields.
Interview other farmers, if necessary. List down all observations related to:
5 Kinds, varieties, or cultivars of head- and curd-forming vegetables planted;
5 Different growth stages of head- and curd-forming vegetables planted; and
5 Cultural management practices employed at different growth stages.
2. Go back to processing area; brainstorm in small groups and present output to the big group.
3. Conduct participatory discussion to allow sharing of experiences among participants and
facilitators. Motivate farmers to share their best cultural management practices employed in
relation to morphology and growth stages of head- and curd-forming organic vegetables in their
own farm, as follows:
5 Pre-planting operations (e.g., land preparation, seedbed preparation, seedbed treatment,
sowing, care of seedling, roguing of diseased plants, cultural control of pests, land
preparation, raised bed preparation, furrowing, organic and microbial-based fertilizer
application, pulling of seedlings, monitoring, etc.);
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