the Regional Innovation Center of Fruits
and Vegetables at Zamorano focuses on
five main areas: production, research,
rural extension, education and training
the experience we want to share is about
the training component we are currently
developing educational training
processes under the methodology of
"learning by doing"
addressed by technical specialists
who acquire knowledge and technical skills necessary to then implement these
processes in the field the last training
we have focused on techniques and
technologies to help low-income
producers located in the rural areas of
the dry corridor of Honduras the
training was developed in the topic
extension methodologies specifically
focused on farmer field schools during
two weeks the participants received
theoretical practical training through
the "learning by doing." Here we can see
the participants developing analysis of
the ecosystem system as a tool of this
methodology which will help them to make
decisions on the farm to work with the
producer participants were also
evaluated through box tests which is a
very important evaluation tool for
farmer field schools and even when you
have producers who can't read or write
in the questions you can place
images and life samples that make
reference and make understanding easier
to farmers here what we want to show is
another farmer field schools tool called
"development of new concepts" and the idea
of this is to teach farmers through
giving them the opportunity to
experiment on their own and we as
technicians live through learning
process an example of this is to teach
the biological cycle of an insect in the
field other activities developed during
the training was a field day for the
exchange of experiences and a visit to
producers farms to teach about the topic
of managing water for human consumption and irrigation
