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<strong>Field</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Discovery</strong>-<strong>based</strong> <strong>Exercises</strong> <strong>for</strong> Organic Vegetable Production<br />

2. Go back to processing area; brainstorm in small groups and present output to big group.<br />

3. Conduct participatory discussion to allow sharing <strong>of</strong> experiences among participants and<br />

facilitators. Motivate farmers to share experiences on how to identify presence <strong>of</strong> rats and<br />

prepare, construct, and install rat traps and baiting stations as well as employ rodent management<br />

strategies in their organic vegetable fields.<br />

4. Synthesize and summarize output <strong>of</strong> small groups into one big group output. Draw up<br />

conclusions and recommendations from this exercise.<br />

5. Facilitate farmers to identify presence <strong>of</strong> rats and prepare, construct, and install rat traps and<br />

baiting stations as well as employ rodent management strategies in their learning and adjoining<br />

fields by improving the procedure below:<br />

5 Each small group should prepare rodent baits, construct two rodent baiting stations and<br />

install them in strategic areas in learning and adjoining fields;<br />

5 Each small group should do following hands-on around learning and adjoining fields:<br />

a) identifying presence <strong>of</strong> rats by their runways, live burrows, and others;<br />

b) dig live rodent burrows to understand their structures; and<br />

c) experience catching live rodents from burrows.<br />

5 Return to session hall and process activity. Provide guide questions <strong>based</strong> on field<br />

observations and interactions with farmers, which each small group should answer and<br />

report to big group <strong>for</strong> critiquing;<br />

5 Conduct a participatory discussion in a big group to design appropriate rodent management<br />

options;<br />

5 Elicit community participation and implement designed rodent management options in<br />

learning and adjoining vegetable fields;<br />

5 Regularly assess, modify, or refine designed management options <strong>for</strong> current cropping<br />

season; and<br />

5 Redesign a more innovative community-<strong>based</strong> rodent management strategy <strong>based</strong> on a<br />

season-long experience <strong>for</strong> implementation by farmers in their community in succeeding<br />

cropping seasons.<br />

some suggested questions <strong>for</strong> processing discussion<br />

❏ As reported by agricultural technologists, Bayawan City <strong>of</strong> Negros Oriental has a rodent<br />

damage index which ranges from 5 to 17 % last cropping season. Draw up your management

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