Agricultural development workers training manual - Volume III Crops: Chapter III: Technical guidelines and references for the crops training component: Surveying and interpreting the agricultural environment

Agricultural development workers training manual - Volume III Crops

Chapter III: Technical guidelines and references for the crops training component

Surveying and interpreting the agricultural environment

		A. The agricultural environment
		B. Guidelines for the orientation of the agricultural field worker1
		C. Understanding the individual farm unit
		D. Designing a questionnaire
		Introduction to crop production management
		A guide to crop production management factors

Surveying and interpreting the agricultural environment

The purpose of this chapter is to a how you, the agricultural field worker (AFW), how to survey and interpret the important features of the local agricultural environment and the individual farm units which are a part of it. This is vital to your effectiveness as an extensionist, since it will enable you to fully comprehend your work area’s farming systems and practices, as well as its individual farm units.