EDUCATION
Training of Facilitators
Farmer Field School
Women Open School
Children Ecological Club
Farm Family Field School
Non Formal Education
Facilitation Skills
Participatory Planning
Group Dynamic
Photo Gallary
SCIENCE
BY FARMERS
Innovations/Discoveries
Experiments
Insect Zoo
JAM BASHIR AHMED
3FS Facilitator
3FS PRINCIPLES
GROW HEALTHY CROP
OBSERVE CROP REGULARLY
CONSERVE NATURAL ENEMIES OF PESTS
FAMILY BECOME EXPERTS
3FS OBJECTIVES
CAPACITY BUILDING
EMPOWERMENT
CONFIDENCE DEVELOPMENT
DECISION MAKING
FARM FAMILY FIELD SCHOOL (3FS)
Farmer
training programs have continuous changes in methods and approach from the
beginning of farmer's education. Farmer Field School remains the last and
final approach as more effective and sustainable with keeping the safe and
sound socio-agro-economical aspects of the agriculture till 2007. This participatory
multidimensional approach has different methods of educations as FFS, Women
Open School (WOS) and Children Ecological Club (CEC) for male, female and
children respectively. In these models the basic concept of training is participatory,
Agro-Ecologically Discovery-based learning with almost same principles and
objectives.
“Bashir A. Sabir, R. Y. Khan. Being an IPM facilitator I have faced
many problems in running FFS especially of poor participation by male farmers
in weekly training sessions. This disappointing participation of male farmers
in FFS lead to an introduction of new group education named as Farm Family
Field School (3FS). In this model male, female, younger and elders all sit
together for training purpose weekly with more participation".
"In the beginning we opened eight 3FS facilitated by male and female farmer facilitators in Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur with collaboration of Kissan Welfare Association respectively. Making the farmer expert at the different spot, is now gathered in a single unit to make a family expert instead of individual to insure the future farmer expert for prosperous community with sustainable agriculture in the country".
“National IPM Programme always tried to facilitate the farming community for their better livelihood. This model will be tested in different farming communities under IPM-FFS approach in future”. Jam M. Khalid, IPM Coordinator (Punjab), National IPM Programme, NARC, Pakistan.
