Crowdsourcing Knowledge: An Extension Approach for Remunerative and Sustainable Home Garden Farming Systems in Kerala

Journal of Extension Education Pub Date : 2020-10-13 DOI:10.26725/jee.2020.1.32.6429-6440

Allana Thomas, M. N. Babu

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Kerala has pioneered development models through farmer participatory approaches. Involving the grassroots in scientific studies can help improve crop variety adoption and refined technology recommendations. Participatory tools like Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Participatory Technology Development (PTD), On Farm Testing (OFT), Front Line Demonstrations (FLD) and Participatory Breeding Programmes (PBP) are all time-tested examples of its successful use in researches. Crowdsourced citizen science approach called tricot – ‘triadic comparisons of technologies’ is popular today, where farmers are made to adopt three crop varieties or technologies randomly assigned to them from a broader set of varieties/technologies for final choice aimed at continuous adoption. The results of this study conducted during 2019-2020 revealed that more than 80% of the farmers fully adopted the technology prescribed in the checklist as a result of crowdsourcing knowledge. The results on attitude of farmers towards crowdsourcing revealed that majority of the farmers posessed favourable attitude towards crowdsourcing approach.

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众包知识：喀拉拉邦报酬和可持续家庭花园农业系统的扩展方法

喀拉拉邦通过农民参与的方式开创了发展模式。让基层参与科学研究有助于提高作物品种的采用率和改进技术建议。参与式农村评估（PRA）、参与式技术开发（PTD）、农场测试（OFT）、前线示范（FLD）和参与式育种计划（PBP）等参与式工具都是其在研究中成功使用的久经考验的例子。被称为tricot的众包公民科学方法——“技术的三元比较”今天很流行，农民被要求采用三种作物品种或从更广泛的品种/技术中随机分配给他们的技术，以供最终选择，目的是持续采用。2019-2020年期间进行的这项研究结果显示，由于众包知识，超过80%的农民完全采用了清单中规定的技术。农民对众包的态度调查结果显示，大多数农民对众外包方式持积极态度。

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