China / FAO project to reduce pesticide risk IPM Farmer Field School training in full swing in Guangxi

By the end of August to early September, Lingchuan, Liujiang, financial security, Lingui, Lipu, Bucheon counties have held a Chinese / FAO project IPM Farmer Field School training the opening ceremony, setting off a wave of Farmer Field School training to carry out the climax.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization planning and autonomous deployment of the Agriculture Department job, the second half of 2008 to the end of 2009, the region will be introduced Farmer Field School training courses 100, through the training to reduce pesticide risks , improve the quality of agricultural products and protection of ecological environment. Farmer Field School is a new type of agricultural extension training mode, which farmer-centered to the field to the classroom to meet the needs of peasant production in the demand for technology as the goal, the use of participatory, heuristic, interactive mode of education through training to enable farmers to become experts to achieve the purpose. Farmer field schools to operate on my district improve the level of production of pollution-free vegetables to enhance the competitiveness of agricultural trade has a practical significance, in my area offered the IPM Farmer Field School will focus on cultivating a new type of ability to have IPM Farmer, and through demonstration of radiation and leading role in the comprehensive promotion of my eco-agricultural development, with specific actions to implement the country "by training a new type of farmers to develop modern agriculture," the general idea and requirements, solid progress building a new socialist countryside.