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By the end of the 1980s, a new approach to farmer training emerged in Indonesia called the 'Farmer Field School' (FFS). The broad problem which these field schools were designed to address was a lack of knowledge among Asian farmers relating to agroecology, particularly the relationship between insect pests and beneficial insects. [2]
The bas-relief in 8th century Borobudur depicting a farmer plowing the field pulled by a buffalo. Agriculture in Indonesia started as a means to grow and provide food. Rice, coconut, sugar palm, taro, tubers, shallots and tropical fruits were among the earliest produce being cultivated in the archipelago. Evidence of wild rice cultivation on ...
Hundreds of thousands of farmers were trained using an approach known as the Farmer Field School (FFS). [42] Like many of the programmes managed by FAO, the funds for Farmer Field Schools came from bilateral Trust Funds, with Australia, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland acting as the leading donors. FAO's efforts in this area have drawn ...
Agricultural extension is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education.The field of 'extension' now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organized for rural people by educators from different disciplines, including agriculture, agricultural marketing, health, and business studies.
Field School can mean: Field school, mentored field research; Farmer field school, an international farm-education program; Field School (Israel), Israeli institutions for the study of the environment and its natural habitats; It can also refer to schools with the name "Field" in them: The Field School, a college-preparatory school in ...
As an agricultural country, Indonesia has a lot of public and private agricultural education institutions. They consist of universities, polytechnics , and colleges. Bogor Agricultural University , Bogor
PRA ranking exercise being carried out by members of a Farmer Field School in Bangladesh, 2004. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and ...
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. [1] The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmland or might work as a laborer on land owned by others.