AMARTA intervention for Improving Competitiveness of Horticulture Value Chain in Karo district, Nort

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• AMARTA intervention for Improving Competitiveness
  of Horticulture Value Chain in Karo district,
  North Sumatera
• Safe and Judicisious use of Pesticide

A Presentation for the AMARTA Interventions for
Improving Competitiveness of Horticultural Value
Chains Work in Progress, Achievements, and
Lessons Learned for Replication By Erik
Meliala Horticulture Competitiveness
Specialist AMARTA
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Rationale

• Farmers Dependency on Pesticides
• Factors contibuting to unproper use of pesticides
• Good Pesticide Practices
• Farmer Needs Training

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1. Farmers Dependency on Pesticides

• Protecting crops from insects, weeds and diseases
  
• Most farmers consider that pesticides are the
  most practical, economical and effective
  substances for pest control compared to other
  pest control techniques.
• The use of pesticide at farmer level tends to be
  very intensive, excessive, improper and unsafe
• The improper practices would raise problem in
  workers health, community and consumers,
  environmental pollution, losses of wildlife and
  other beneficial organisms, as well as life of
  pesticides

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Factors contibuting to unproper use of pesticides

• Level of knowledge and skills of farmers on
  proper use of pesticides are very limited.
• The farmers mostly apply pesticides based on
  experience or partial information provided by
  government, pesticides company field workers or
  retailers.
• Risks associated with the use of pesticide are
  poorly understood by most users, particularly the
  impacts of long term exposure for workers,
  consumers, and public
• The awareness and desire to comply with the
  recommendations are not sufficient

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Good Pesticide Practices

• Pesticide usage must comply with the regulation
  issued by the Govermnet. The enforcement on the
  implementation of regulations are supervised and
  managed by the national pesticides authority.
• All stages of pesticide use, starting from
  purchase, field use, storage, and disposal, have
  to be documented.
• Farmers as operators have to have practical
  knowledge and skills about pestidices and proper
  application of pesticides.
• Farmers have to follow the instruction and
  recommendation of pesticide application as
  written in the label.
• Pesticides must be used based on principles and
  concept of IPM, taking into account the impact on
  environment and non target / beneficial
  organisms.

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Farmer Needs Training

• The globalization and consumers awareness, demand
  of consuming green products that are safe for
  human health and environment.
• Agriculture commodities should be cultivated and
  processed using environmental friendly
  technologies
• In Indonesia, more than 25 million farmers work
  in food and horticulture crops, and more than 15
  million farmers work in estate crops.
• A comprehensive training is seriously needed
  using a more effective approach

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TRAINING OBJECTIVES

• Enpowering farmers in using pesticides properly
  and safely for health and environment.
• Improving farmers income due to of effective and
  efficient use of pesticide for better quality
  production.
• Enabling farmers seeking certificate and label
  for their products based on the standard
  requirement of Good Agriculture Practices (GAP).

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Training and Evaluation activities

• Training for the Trainers
• Training for the farmers
• Monitoring and Evaluation.

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Training for the Trainers

• Design
• - 7 field staff of CropLife company member.
• - 7 staff of Horticulture Plant Protection
  Agency.
• - 9 leading farmers.
• Trainers
• - 4 Trainer Experts (TE) from CropLife
  organization

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Topics

• Pesticide classification
• Pest/weed/disease identification
• Insecticide/fungicide/herbicide selection
• Understanding label.
• Sprayer design and selection
• Nozzle selection.
• Sprayer calibration.
• Sprayer care and maintenance.
• Pesticide Toxicity.
• Protective clothing.
• Safe and effective spraying.
• Emergency procedures.
• Visual aids.

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2. Training for the farmers

• - 25 villages in 4 sub district Karo
• - 30 farmers of each group participating
• - Total farmers 623 trained.
• Duration.
• 4 days each group

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Training the trainers
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Training the farmers
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Monitoring and Evaluation (On the Progress).

• Plant Protection Agency (BPTPH) of North Sumatra
  conducted evaluation pesticide residue test in
  citrus, cabbage and potato before and after
  training.
• Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and
  Development (BPTP) conducted evaluation of
  farmers behavior change before and after
  training

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