Assessing farmer field school as a sustainable agricultural methodology for farmers in Trinidad and Tobago

  • Ramroop, Deanne V.
  • Ragbir, Sarojini
Publication date
April 2017

Abstract

Pest management is one of the most limiting factors to crop production in Trinidad and Tobago. Surveys conducted in 1995 revealed that pest control is the single largest expense, accounting for 30 - 40 % of total crop production costs (Lopez et al. 1995). One of the problems identified was the transfer of both existing and new technologies to farmers to ensure development of their knowledge base, leading to sustainable agricultural production. A pilot Farmer Field School (FFS) project in 2003, introduced the use of Farmer Participatory Approaches (FPA) for Ecological Crop Management (ECM) in Trinidad and Tobago. During the period 2004/2008, thirty eight FFS have been conducted with over 400 farmers participating. In order to assess the FF...

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