Changing the strategies of Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh
Changing the strategies of Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the first Farmer Field Schools were organised in the early 1990s, assisted by the FAO inter-country programme for IPM in rice. After initial positive experiences, several other donors (UNDP, CARE-Bangladesh and DANIDA) started projects to spread IPM to hundreds of thousands of farmers through IPM Farmer Field Schools. All these projects included season-long Training of Trainers courses to develop skilled FFS facilitators. Through this continuous support over the past ten years, Bangladesh now has a huge capacity to implement FFSs, especially in the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). Dec 2007