Enhancing skills through pilots of household farms
The awareness and exposure exercises were instantly followed by grounding and establishing pilot demonstration plots at the participating household farms. These pilots served as training grounds of appropriate natural farming technologies with the objective of enhancing the hands-on-skills to adopt and replicate the new farming techniques.
Classifications
Category
Alliance and partnership development
Education, training and other capacity development activities
Sustainable livelihoods
Scale of implementation
Local
Subnational
Phase of solution
Implementation
Enabling factors
The natural farming techniques were well adapted by the farmers of the village due to its cost-efficient nature and because raw materials were readily available locally within the village.
Lessons learned
In addition to these newly learned techniques, the series of awareness and training programs and exposure visits have aided them in developing confidence in this indigenous farming practice.