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Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Organic Vegetable Production
Exercise is a structured learning experience marked by a learning goal, high participation, and structure. Its
overall purpose is to generate data from participant analysis.
Facilitator is a trainer or specialist who, as a change agent, structures learning situations and experiences
with the end result of enhancing the learner’s capabilities to be sensitive to his or her own processes and
behavior. He or she is one who functions in a way to allow participants to assume responsibility for his or
her own learning. The term is in contrast to the more didactic instructor, teacher, lecturer, presenter, etc.
Farmers’ crop protection (FCP) practice refers to usual crop protection practice of farmers prior to the
introduction of integrated pest management (IPM) practice in any vegetable production area. Normally,
an FCP consists of a calendar-scheduled pesticide application for the control of pests and diseases.
Farmer field school (FFs), by design, is a ‘school without walls’, where about twenty five farmers meet once
a week for the duration of the cropping season from planting to harvest. In each weekly session of an
FFS, the farmers, working in-groups, conduct agro-ecosystem analysis (AESA), team building activities
and special topics. Special topics are designed based on immediate problems encountered by farmers in
their farming activities. Trained FFS facilitators allow farmers to be experts, facilitating them to bring
forth and examine their own experiences.
Feed-backing is a way of receiving information from or giving to one or more participants or facilitators
concerning one’s behavior, attitudes and relationships in a learning situation.
‘Feel’ method is a common field method of classifying soil texture for vegetable production by its feel or by
rubbing soil between thumb and fingers.
Fermented fruit juice (FFJ) is an organic foliar spray produced by almost same way as FPJ. It uses ripen
sweet fruits such as strawberry, fig, mulberry, mango, papaya, or banana. FFJ contains enzymes rich in
potash for fruit sweetener.
Fermented plant juice (FPJ) is an organic foliar spray made from plant leaves such as thinned crop plants
like axillary’s buds and young fruits and whatever grasses. With crude sugar, plant juice is extracted and
gets fermented; liquid is applied to soil, plant leaves, and animal bedding to fortify microbial activities
Fertilizer management means any strategy or method that will lead to effective and efficient use of fertilizers
in crop production.
Field day is an occasion when farmers and facilitators show other people or the community what they have
learned and the results of their participatory technology development (PTD) activities.
Field trip or field visit is a planned visit or tour to a given area, site, laboratory, field, plantation, project, etc.
to study its operation in depth, learn lessons and to report back thereon. The field trip is typically a team
project or activity, although not universally so.