This curriculum, developed and edited by the trainees of the IPM rice-fish ToT, is not a cooking recipe, but an inspirational document which is free for modifications based on local needs. Its contents are a blend of actual ToT experience and other sources, prepared under the guidance of the two FAO TCDC consultants for IPM and aquaculture, and the participants of the season long IPM/FFS training program held in Guyana from 5 December 2004 to 18 March 2005.
This curriculum emphasizes the strategy of integrating fish into rice production systems in Guyana and Suriname, through IPM, under the Farmers Field School participatory approach.
This curriculum presents procedures of activities to be undertaken aimed at providing an opportunity for rice farmers in realizing additional income, higher crop yield and reduced cost of production, by reducing their spending on the purchase of pesticides, through farmer education based. It is hoped that both trainees and facilitators of FFS would find this curriculum enlightening and handy to use.