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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of farmer field school (FFS) approach on rice producer's characteristics and adoption of biological control. The results of the multiple regression analysis (stepwise method) revealed that the variables of knowledge of biological control, relative advantage, mechanization level, rice producers experiences, [...]

The Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) has been implementing IPM farmer field schools (FFS) with small scale farmers in Eastern Uganda since 2001. This study assesses the impact of cowpea-specific IPM FFS on IPM knowledge and the theoretical link between increased knowledge on the adoption of [...]

This paper examined the various approaches to agricultural extension and the challenges of farmer-led extension approaches. These challenges include changes in the organization structure and profession attitude, strengthen farmers' organizations, farmers' acceptability, fiscal sustainability and logistics issues.

This research aims to explore the effect of the integrated pest management farmer field school (IPMFFS) on farmers’ knowledge, farmers groups’ ability, and process of adoption and diffusion of IPM in Jember District, Indonesia. The population of the research was 556 groups of farmers, with 22.240 farmers who are engaged [...]

Rats are one pest that causes much damage to agricultural production in Viet Nam and other countries. In agriculture, rats damage many different kinds of crops directly on the fields and the produce in store houses. Rats are also vectors of diseases dangerous to people and animals, particularly, bubonic disease [...]

Empowerment is a key element of popular participation in rural development projects. In this sense, it is crucial to know the different approaches and methodologies capable of or with the potential to generate empowerment. This paper presents the results of a study done in the district of Boane, Mozambique, with [...]

Recently the Government of KP has introduced a new extension approach i.e Farmers’ Field Schools (FFS) to build the capacity of farmers through discovery based learning. The present paper is based on the study designed to analyze the participation of farmers in the FFS as an alternative extension strategy to [...]

This study performed an economic impact analysis of the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) training program in three major cotton producing countries in Asia; namely China, India and Pakistan. The training program is based on the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach launched by the “FAO-EU IPM Program for Cotton in Asia”. In the three [...]

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Kyrgyz republic in 1991 Kyrgyz agriculture went through deep structural changes, from large collective farms to household-scaled semi-subsistence farms. Former kolkhoz and sovkhoz specialists became smallscale farm- generalists with a huge lack of technical knowledge and entrepreneurship. Those [...]

Government of KP introduced a new extension approach called Farmers’ Field Schools (FFS) in 2004 in the 24 districts of the province. The present paper is based on the study designed to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of FFS as perceived by farmers. The analysis shows that FFS improved knowledge of [...]