The DA RFO shall procure the necessary goods and services to be provided to the farmers in the target rice areas for the particular technology that would be scaled. The list below, not being exclusive, are the standard activities, support interventions, and assistance that must be implemented under each technology to be scaled:
PALAYAMANAN
CAPACITATION/PREPARATION:
Social preparation, mobilization, and project management to include staff and extension workers' expenses (travel communication, and other types of allowance)
Trainings (Training of Trainers, Farmers)
INTERVENTIONS:
Rice seeds (regular seeds from DA and/or farmers' varieties/traditional seeds)
Seedlings of vegetables
Seedlings of fruit-bearing trees
Livestock
Vermi worms for farm/income diversification to include collective enterprise.
Farm inputs (compost prepared by farmers, inorganic fertilizers, biofertilizers, soil conditioners, and liquid fertilizers/concoctions using animal manure, and other organic materials)
Fuel/Labor costs for irrigation, land preparation, and transplanting activities
Other farm inputs (including seedling tray)
Small farm machinery like micro tiller, and biomass shredder (if needed)
Village-type storage facilities
Crop insurance support
SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION (SRI)
CAPACITATION/PREPARATION:
Social preparation, mobilization, and project management to include staff and extension workers' expenses (travel communication, and other types of allowance)
Trainings (Training of Trainers, Farmers)
INTERVENTIONS:
Rice seeds (regular seeds from DA and/or farmers' varieties/traditional seeds)
Farm inputs (compost or organic fertilizers prepared by farmers, biofertilizers, soil conditioners, and liquid fertilizers/concoctions using animal manure, and other organic materials)
Fuel/Labor costs for irrigation, land preparation, and transplanting activities.
if requested by farmers, inorganic fertilizers
Small farm machinery to include manual rotary or motorized weeders per cluster
Other farm inputs (including seedling tray)
Crop insurance support
AGROECOLOGY-BASED RICE FARMING (ABRF)
CAPACITATION/PREPARATION:
Social preparation, mobilization, and project management to include staff and extension workers' expenses (travel communication, and other types of allowance)
Trainings (Training of Trainers, Farmers)
INTERVENTIONS:
Rice seeds (regular seeds from DA and/or farmers' varieties/traditional seeds)
Seedlings of vegetables
Seedlings of fruit-bearing trees
Timber trees
Livestock
Vermi worms for farm/income diversification to include collective enterprise.
Farm inputs (compost or organic fertilizers prepared by farmers, biofertilizers, soil conditioners, and liquid fertilizers/concoctions using animal manure, and other organic materials)
Fuel/Labor costs for fixing irrigation canals, land preparation, and transplanting activities.
Small farm machinery like micro tiller, and biomass shredder
Village-type storage facilities
Crop insurance support
HEIRLOOM RICE PRODUCTION
CAPACITATION/PREPARATION:
Social preparation, mobilization, and project management to include staff and extension workers' expenses (travel communication, and other types of allowance)
Trainings (Training of Trainers, Farmers)
INTERVENTIONS:
Organic farm inputs
Special rice seeds/seedlings
if requested by farmers, inorganic fertilizers
Small farm machinery such as micro tillers, mini threshers, brown rice mill, micro mill