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Impact of farmer field school in tomato

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Title Impact of farmer field school in tomato
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Creator Saju George and Hegde M. R.
 
Subject FFS, tomato
 
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Farmers field schools have emerged as effective transfer of technology tools for promoting IPM packages, as the experience shows in different countries. In this direction an effort was made by the Division of Extension and Training, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Bangalore to popularize the IPM package developed by IIHR through Farmer Field School (FFS). A predominantly tomato growing village called Agrahara in Bangalore north taluk of Bangalore Rural district was selected for implementation of FFS. Before taking up the FFS, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) was taken up by a team of scientists, to identify the constraints in production of tomato and the gap in adoption of IPM technologies in tomato. The study revealed that IPM package was not adopted by majority of the farmers due to various reasons. The important among them being the non-availability of critical inputs locally for adoption of IPM package and farmers had not understood the philosophy of IPM. They revert back to chemical methods of pest and disease control because it gives knock down effect and shows immediate results. In order to make them adopt the IPM package, FFS was initiated with the objective of convincing the farmers about the philosophy of IPM; facilitating the identification and effective management of pest and diseases. For this purpose an IPM team was constituted with scientists from the divisions of plant pathology, entomology, vegetable crops, soil science and agricultural extension. The paper focuses on the impact of IPM in terms of reduction in pest and disease levels, effect on level of usage of chemicals and reduction in the cost of cultivation compared to farmer's practice. The impact in terms of change in knowledge and attitude to facilitate adoption of IPM practices is also discussed in the paper.
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Date 2021-07-29T09:28:18Z
2021-07-29T09:28:18Z
2013-11-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/51102
 
Language English
 
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