Thanks God, it's Friday! This is the day for PhilRice's PalayCheck Field School (PFS), which run for 15 weeks as part of the season-long Rice Specialists' Training Course (RSTC).
This time, this blogger joined PFS conducted at Zafra Aqua Farm, Brgy. Sto. Tomas, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija. There were 20 farmers and 10 training staff/facilitators (including this blogger) in attendance. As in other 8 PFS simultaneously conducted by fellow RSTC-participating RSO (Rice Sufficiency Officers) in the neighboring villages of PhilRice Central Experiment Station in Maligaya, Science City of Munoz, this PFS is facilitated by a team of RSO with Ms. Aurora Corrales of PhilRice Technology Management and Services Division (TMSD) backstopping.
There were 2 topics discussed today and demonstrated (actually done)by the participating farmers themselves. These were "Modified Dapog System of Seedling Preparation" and "Land Preparation and Transplanting". In the demo of "modified dapog", the class was divided into 5 groups and each group prepared the seedbed themselves. For land preparation (which was partly done), pulling of seedlings and transplanting, the farmer-participants themselves did the activities. It was indeed "learning-by-doing" in action.
After the 2 main activities were finished, open-discussion (malayang talakayan) followed, where farmers and facilitators made exchanges about the experience, identifying among others, the strengths and weaknesses of these hands-on exercises.
There was also "PFS processing session" after the training, where this blogger's observations and insights about this activity were discussed with the facilitators. Finally in the afternoon, the training team continued the unfinished barangay survey and mapping as part of the PFS curriculum.
Documentary photos for this PFS follows shortly.(30)
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