Participatory pest analysis

This brief note describes the principles and practice of integrated pest management (IPM) as part of the FAO country programme in South and South East Asia. The objectives of the programmes are outlined, emphasising the importance of minimising the use of pesticides in rice crops and encouraging farmers to learn about their agro- ecosystem. Procedures involved in training the farmers to use transects method are described along with the outcome of the training. Although the main part of the training methodology applied is said to be the transect and the use of the word PRA is made once in the note, the whole emphasis of the paper seems to be on imparting knowledge from the trainers to the farmers rather than on a two-way learning process.