A Small Dose of Pesticide – 2/29/04

EFFORT-CROPLIFE

FARMERS TRAINING ON RESPONSIBLE USE AND SECURE STORAGE OF PESTICIDES

• Project launching• Establishment of Project office and Field office• Staff appointment• Selection of Master trainers- 45 MTs • Selection of operational area for PY-I

- Adoni mandal: 43 villages

- Yemmiganur: 15 villages

• Baseline survey and Identification of Direct & Indirect farmers

- Direct farmers: 5077

- Indirect farmers: 19905

• Preparation of village wise Direct & Indirect farmers list• Preparation of Training modules

•TOT workshops for Master trainers • Finalization & Printing of Training modules• Preparation of training schedules• Identification of training venues• Orientation classes to Master trainers• Identification of Farmer Training Groups - Total No. of FTGs: 177 ( West cluster:92; East: 85 )

• Conducting Farmer training classes • Development of farmer mobilization strategy

- Training team

- Mobilization team

• Development of farmer to farmers training strategy through pamphlets• Special training classes to cover absentees

Continued all the project activities TOT workshop to Master trainers on the

remaining themes Field visits Village meetings Preparation of village profiles Preparation and finalization of remaining

training modules Development of posters Wall writings Personal protection equipment (Storage boxes) . . . . . . . . .

Preparation of training schedules

Farmer mobilization strategy

Farmer to farmer training strategy

Exploring the reasons for absence

Special trainings to cover the absentees

Training schedules

• Key in facilitating the trainings in large scale

• Cushion period for each module will be used in case of postponements

• Ex: Training Schedule_VI.xlsx

Farmer mobilization strategy

Master trainer

s

Farmer to farmers training Indirect farmer-1

Indirect farmer-2Direct farmer Indirect farmer-3

Indirect farmer-4Pamphlet

s

• Key resource for Direct farmers to train Indirect farmers

•Pamphlets consists of précised information of each training module

Exploring the reasons for absenteeism Mobilization team enquires through personal

interactions Few Reasons identified.. - Farming practices - Heavy rains - Unavoidable personal works - Physical stress However… Increased level of farmer participation is

identified

Covering the absentees Exploring the reasons for absenteeism List out all the absentees in a village A separate training class is planned and

organized for all absentees from all FTGs in a village

If still find absentees… (Very few) - Personal interactions - Door to door - Pamphlets

Module wise training details

Farmer participation levels

Understanding the training modules - Special orientation on each module

Farmer participation in the trainings - Special team for mobilization

Rains in the training time - Identified indoor venues

Unavoidable postponements of trainings - Cushion period in the training schedule

Gap in farmer to farmers trainings - Development of pamphlets for each module

Monitoring plan Project coordinator

Planning Report Administration Field visits

Field coordinator( East Cluster) Field coordinator( West Cluster)

Field visits Reports Field visits Reports

Training team Mobilization team Training teamMobilization team

ACHIEVEMENTS Identified 58 villages for PY-1 activities Appointed full pledged and qualified Project staff Very good rapport is created with farmers as well all the

related sections of the people 24982 farmers identified in which 5077 are Direct and

19905 are Indirect farmers Developed 13 training modules under 4 main themes Master trainers are fully trained on the training modules Training modules are printed with all the necessary tools 5000 Direct farmers are grouped in to 177 Training groups

covering all the villages to facilitate the trainings 1st theme trainings are successfully completed where there

is 88% of farmers participated Developed various strategies to achieve the project

objectives

Note: General Includes Door to Door Campaigns, Mass Meetings, School Children Rallies, Focus Group Discussions, Wall Writings, and Posters

SL NO. THEMES

MODULE NOs.

APR 2010

MAY 2010

JUN 2010

JUL 2010

AUG 2010

SEP 2010

OCT 2010

NOV 2010

DEC2010

1 RESPONSIBLE USE

1 √ √

2 √ √

3 √ √

4 √

5 √

6

2 SECURE STORAGE

7 √

8 √

9 √

3 PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT

10 √

11 √

4 FIRST AID

12 √

13 √

5 GENERAL* √ √ √ √

6 TOT √ √

Time frame for PY-I

PY-II completed Baseline survey Identified 25460 farmers in Yemmiganur and

Pedda kadabur mandals. Identified 5170 Direct and 20290 Indirect

farmers Considered women farmers as well under

Indirect farmers Submitted all the data to BIRDS

The way forward Door to door campaign Cultural campaigns Focus group discussions School children campaigns Mass meetings Video documentation

TRAININGS

FARMER TO FARMERS TRAININGFARMER TO FARMERS TRAINING

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