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

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Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Organic Vegetable Production
5 Who made a good profit last year or last season?
5 How did you know that you made a profit?
5 Do you keep any written records of your spending, earnings, and profits? What kind of
records do you keep?
5 How much money and time do you spend on organic vegetable production?
5 How do you calculate what you spend (e.g., by counting PESOS or by counting sacks of
solid organic fertilizers and packs of extract organic fertilizers)?
5 How much did each of you get for your organic vegetable produce last year or last season?
3. Guide a discussion to explore what profit might have been made if organic vegetable farmers
had made different decisions about amount of inputs they used in their own organic vegetable
fields. Here are some suggested questions:
5 How many kilograms of each product and by-product of organically-grown vegetables did
you have to sell to pay for organic fertilizers that you bought?
5 What else could you have used that money for?
4. Guide a discussion so that all needed information for recording can be explored to compare
profits that are gained by farmers in their organic vegetable farming.
5. Make a list of all information that the big group wants to record.
some suggested questions for processing discussion
❏ Note: There is no extra processing needed because this exercise is a guided participatory
discussion.