Reporting
Don’t forget to prepare a beautiful report about your FFS. The report is not only useful for yourself, but will also help you to get future support from your superiors, funding agency.
A complete FFS report will include:
- Index and Summary
- Location of the FFS
- List of FFS facilitators and FFS farmers, their addresses and telephone numbers
- Baseline data of the farmers
- Planting calendar (Farmers’ Practice)
- Agricultural problems (e.g. diseases, pests, soil, water)
- Overview of all weekly FFS activities for the whole season
- Map showing the field with layout of IPM plot, FP plot, field experiments
- IPM plot and FP plot calendar (a drawing with timeline, showing the plant growth and the weekly activities/applications)
- Comparison between IPM plot and FP plot
- Plant growth /pests / natural enemies / diseases
- Cost and profit
- Field experiments
- Purpose of the experiment
- Methodology
- How data were collected
- Results (data) and analysis
- Conclusion
- Overview of FFS budget and expenses
- Recommendations
- Drawings and photographs of your AESA and field activities, experimental plots, etc.
Planning
The last FFS session(s) will be used to make plans for the next season. We want the farmers to continue working and learning as a group.
Let’s discuss what we have learned and which questions we need to answer in the next season. Let’s make plans for new field experiments. Let’s divide tasks and decide when we meet again.
The last FFS session should not be the end, but it is the beginning of our next season activities.
If FFS facilitators will not be available for a second season, then one or more leading farmers can take their role and become the facilitators during the next season.