An agricultural cooperative is a formal association of farmers for marketing and processing of products. Therefore, the overall aim of these two days training of trainers was to encourage them for conducting Farmer’s Field school among their farmer members focusing more on minimising pesticide usage through IPM method.

      

                                                           TOT training to agricultural cooperatives

AA two-day training program for pesticide retailers was organised where a total of 13 members from 6 different cooperatives were the participants. The pre-test mean score was 12.00 whereas the post-test mean was 16.62 which shows there was an increment of 38.5%.