Effects of training on acquisition of pest management knowledge and skills by small vegetable farmers |
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Authors: | Puyun Yang Wenxin Liu Xunan Shan Ping Li Jinyu Zhou Jianping Lu Yahong Li |
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Affiliation: | aNational Agro-technical Extension and Service Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Maizidian Street, Beijing 100026, PR China;bCollege of Agriculture and Bio-technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100019, PR China;cGeneral Station of Plant Protection and Quarantine of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650000, PR China |
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Abstract: | Effects of farmer field school (FFS) and the conventional (classroom lectures) training on acquisition of pest management knowledge and skills by small vegetable farmers were studied in Yunnan province, China from 2003 to 2007. There were significant gains of knowledge about vegetable pests, natural enemies, insect and disease ecology and pest management among the FFS farmers, but were no significant improvements of knowledge among the conventional trained farmers. Vegetable FFS enabled farmers to learn simple knowledge as well as complex IPM knowledge. In contrast, the conventional training only improved vegetable farmers' simple knowledge. The potential and limitations of FFS as a unique extension tool to disseminate the complex knowledge of IPM to smallholder farmers were demonstrated. |
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Keywords: | Integrated pest management Knowledge Farmer field school Training |
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