Evaluación de un enfoque modificado de escuelas de campo en la apropiación de conocimientos en agricultores de arracacha

Diego Alberto Navarro Niño; Jorge Enrique Villamil Carvajal; Johanna Paola Garnica Montaña; Camilo Ignacio Jaramillo Barrios

doi:10.19053/01228420.v19.n3.2022.14721

Authors

Diego Alberto Navarro Niño a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:9:"AGROSAVIA";} https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-1406
Jorge Enrique Villamil Carvajal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0173-0921
Johanna Paola Garnica Montaña Agrosavia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-809X
Camilo Ignacio Jaramillo Barrios Agrosavia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8302-2736

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19053/01228420.v19.n3.2022.14721

Keywords:

Knowledge Transfer, Rural Extension, Andragogy, Participatory Learning, Social Media

Abstract

The Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are a rural extension strategy and means of disseminating management practices and innovations to strengthen knowledge, emphasizing learning processes with a horizontal and two-way exchange of experiences between the facilitator and the farmers. This study aimed to evaluate a modified field school approach (MFFSA) for farmers in Cajamarca, Tolima - Colombia, with the purpose of identifying the knowledge acquired by farmers in agronomic issues related to production, nutrition, and pest and disease management, for a new arracacha cultivar called AGROSAVIA LA 22. The study simplified the traditional components of an FFS in preparation, implementation, and evaluation where new intervention strategies were incorporated. The results showed that when comparing the before and after of the intervention in the learning process, where a paired t-test was applied in a general way for four categories, it was found that the knowledge of the farmers of the three localities presented statistical differences (p <0.05) in the learning process, going from 36% to 70% in the four categories evaluated. It is concluded that the MFFSA are a promising and effective strategy to increase the knowledge of arracacha growers about innovations and cultivation practices, thus contributing to improve the processes of diffusion of innovations at the local level and strengthening rural extension processes.

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