When planning the next FFS session, it is necessary to make sure that the required training materials will be available. Here is a list of materials that are often needed in an FFS:
- Paper (newsprint / flipchart for AESA drawing)
- Notebooks and pens (for each participant)
- Pencils / crayons / markers (need extra green colors)
- Rulers / scale
- Tape / glue
- Hand lenses
- Sticks / ropes / signboards
- Materials to prepare insect zoo
- Boxes
- Bottles
- Mosquito netting
- Cotton, elastic bands, tape
- Pots
- Plastic bags / elastic bands
- Stand for flip chart
- Sweep nets (not only in rice FFS, but also in other crops. Used to catch flying insects, adult butterflies, dragonflies, hoverflies, etc.)
- Aspirator (make one yourself to catch small insects)
- Knife / scissors
- Chairs / plastic sheet
- Inputs for field experiments
- Fertilizer
- Seed / seedlings
- Bio-control agents
- Neem
- Sticky traps
- Signboards
- Sometimes special designed forms to take data (e.g. in a small field experiment)
