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

Section 7 • Participatory Plant Breeding, Seed Production, Harvest, and Post-Harvest Management
Role Play:
3. Divide big group into five smaller groups. Each small group will designate among them who
will be farmer, trader or feed miller, government or private sector, and researcher. Instructions
of roles will be provided by facilitators (e.g., to be written in a sheet of paper), as follows:
5 Farmer will focus on prevailing issues and problems on post-harvest handling and primary
processing operations that concerns farmers;
5 Trader will focus on prevailing issues and problems on post-harvest handling and primary
processing operations that concern traders or feed millers;
5 Government sector will focus on measures or interventions (e.g., low farm gate price or
government support price);
5 Private sector will focus on support to farmers (e.g., no market or procurement or market
linkage); and
5 Researcher will focus on recent advancement to cope up with global competitiveness
issue (e.g., post-harvest handling and primary processing problems in organically-grown
vegetables).
4. Conduct brainstorming sessions in small groups and present role-play to the big group.
5. The facilitator should guide a participatory discussion to synthesize and summarize result of
role-play and come up with recommendations as a result of this activity.
Puzzle Game:
6. Facilitators prepare necessary materials as follows:
5 Make cartolina cardboard cutouts of equal sizes (4 x 8 inches). Each cartolina cardboard
will make 7-10 cutouts of equal sizes.
5 Draw cabbage head or parts of matured cabbage plant (e.g., whole cabbage plant ready for
harvest).
5 Prepare guide questions. (Guide questions will be written on cutouts, kept on Kraft
envelopes, and provided as part of puzzle game. These will be used to facilitate participatory
discussion or brainstorming session.)
7. Facilitators divide big group into five smaller groups (or use their PTD groupings).
8. Each small group is assigned (by draw lots) as group of farmers, traders or feed millers,
government or private sectors, and researchers.
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