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

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Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Organic Vegetable Production
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 different self-pollinated organic vegetables (e.g.,
snap bean, garden pea, tomato, bell pepper, and eggplant) in their own farm, as follows:
5 Pre-planting operations (e.g., stratification, hydroization, 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.);
5 Planting or transplanting operations (e.g., transplanting, mulching, irrigation, etc.);
5 Recovery and early vegetative stages (e.g., replanting, roguing of diseased plants, leaf
removal of infected leaves, cultural control of pests, spot weeding, side dressing of organic
and microbial-based fertilizers, irrigation, monitoring, etc.);
5 Active vegetative stage (e.g., staking, trellising, roguing of diseased plants, leaf removal
of infected leaves, cultural control of pests, spot weeding, side dressing of organic and
microbial-based fertilizers, hilling up, irrigation, monitoring, etc.);
5 Late vegetative stage (e.g., roguing of diseased plants, leaf removal of infected leaves, twigs
or vines, cultural control of pests, spot weeding, side dressing of organic and microbialbased
fertilizers, hilling up, irrigation, monitoring, etc.);
5 Bud formation and flowering stages (e.g., hand pollination, roguing of diseased plants, leaf
removal of infected leaves, twigs, vines or flowers, cultural control of pests, spot weeding,
side dressing of organic and microbial-based fertilizers, hilling up, irrigation, monitoring,
etc.);
5 Pod or fruit setting and development stages (e.g., roguing of diseased plants, leaf removal
of infected leaves, twigs or vines, thinning of undesirable pods and fruits, cultural control
of pests, spot weeding, side dressing of organic and microbial-based fertilizers, hilling up,
irrigation, monitoring, etc.); and
5 Harvest and post-harvest stages (e.g., 1 st to n th pod or fruit priming or harvesting, sorting,
grading, packaging, etc.).
4. Synthesize and summarize output of small groups into one big group output. Draw up
conclusions and recommendations from this exercise. Design appropriate matrix as shown in
the succeeding page.