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Section 1
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT THE FIELD GUIDE
This Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Organic Vegetable Production is designed
for use in farmer field schools (FFSs) for organic vegetable production. The exercises
in this field guide were based from best practices and learning experiences shared by
FFS facilitators and farmer-practitioners, as well as by technical experts (annex a) during the
Workshop on Designing Farmer Field School Curriculum on Integrated Pest Management For
Organic Vegetable Production held in Laguna, Philippines in 28-30 April 2008. A number of these
exercises were either updated versions or totally new ones enriched by experienced IPM facilitators
and specialists (annex B) during the Write-shop to Develop A Field Guide of Discovery-based
Exercises for FFS of IPM on Organic Vegetable Farming conducted in Laguna, Philippines on
17-19 June 2008. Appropriate exercises were likewise adapted from Field Guide of Discoverybased
Exercises for Vegetable IPM [Volumes I 1 and II 2 ], which were based from experiences by
FFS farmer-participants and IPM facilitators during the past one and a half decades of their local
IPM program implementations. In a most recent volume, many applicable exercises integrated in
this new field guide were shared by participants, facilitators, and resource persons (annex C) in
a previous one-month intensive Refresher Course for Trainers of Integrated Pest Management in
Crucifers and Other Highland Vegetable Crops held in Benguet, Philippines in 27 September to 17
October 1998.
To further ensure aptness and practicability of this field guide, a Technical Review Committee (annex D)
was organized in 02 February 2009 at Laguna, Philippines to review and critique its technical contents.
Likewise, many exercises in this field guide were field validated by participants in two (2) season-long TOTs
(annexes E and F) in eight (8) Practice FFSs (annexes G and H) for Highland and Lowland Organic
Vegetable Production conducted in 12 May-23 September 2008 and 14 July-26 October 2008 in Bukidnon
and Misamis Oriental, Philippines, respectively, as well as in one (1) season-long Follow-up FFS (annex
I) on Organic Vegetable Production conducted in 18 November 2008-10 March 2009 in Sinait, Ilocos Sur,
Philippines. `
1 Philippine National IPM Program. 1997. Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Vegetable IPM (Volume I). National Agricultural and Fishery
Council, Department of Agriculture, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. 1-1/6-40p.
2 Callo, Jr., D.P., L.B. Teofilo, and H.A. Tauli (eds). 2002. Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Vegetable IPM, Volume II. SEAMEO Regional
Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 366p.
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