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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 cross-pollinated organic vegetables (e.g.,
chayote, cucumber, and zucchini) 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 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 and tendril initiation stages (e.g., roguing of diseased plants, leaf removal
of infected leaves or vines, cultural control of pests, spot weeding, side dressing of organic
and microbial-based fertilizers, hilling up, irrigation, monitoring, etc.);
5 Bud formation and flowering stages (e.g., hand pollination, enhancing population of insect
pollinators, roguing of diseased plants, leaf removal of infected leaves and flowers, cultural
control of pests, spot weeding, side dressing of organic and microbial-based fertilizers,
hilling up, irrigation, monitoring, etc.);
5 Fruit setting and development stages (e.g., roguing of diseased plants, leaf removal of
infected leaves or vines, thinning of undesirable fruits, fruit bagging, 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 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.