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Section 3
LIVING SOIL, INTEGRATED SOIL NUTRIENT AND CROP MANAGEMENTS
Compiled in this section are best practices and learning experiences shared by FFS facilitators
and farmer-practitioners, as well as by technical experts on topics related to: (a) living soil,
integrated soil nutrient management or ISNM; and (b) integrated crop management or
ICM that are relevant in organic vegetable production. Appropriate exercises were also adapted
from Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Vegetable IPM [Volumes I 38 and II 39 ]. The
ISNM sub-section includes exercises that promote enhancement of a living soil through adoption
of meaningful soil nutrient conservation and nutrient management practices in organic vegetable
production. Likewise, this sub-section highlights several exercises on production and use of organic
and microbial-based fertilizers. The ICM sub-section, on the other hand, includes a wide-range
of exercises on topics related to cultural management practices in organic vegetable production.
Moreover, this sub-section incorporates selected exercises on appropriate intercropping, crop
rotation, and planting methods, among others.
38 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.
39 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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