permaculture

Workshop Module 9: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) 263

Creative thinking : Using pest baits and traps

Method : Participatory group brainstorm

Tools : Large paper, markers

References : PC Book MOD 9 – Integrated Pest Management

Objective : Participants make a list of traditional pest control techniques

Traditional knowledge about preventative pest measures, like those listed in the earlier
presentations, is important to keep in the community.

It can be used together with modern natural pest control methods.

Running the exercise

• On the board create a table something like the following.


• With the participants conduct a group brainstorm


• List all of the all the known pest prevention techniques, including baits and
  traps.

Leave the answers to the questions blank so that the participants come up
with their own ideas.

Pest prevention

techniques

Materials that are used/

How it is done

Insects or animals that

are controlled

Holes Dig hole and cover with tree branches Wild pig, tigers

Scarecrows Make with used clothes, bamboo, straw, rope Birds

Bamboo drums Made from bamboo and hung with rope Birds, monkey

Catapults Made from wood, rubber, stone Birds, squirrel

Natural poisons Local trees (e.g. gadung) Rats

Traps Rope Birds, monkey, rats

Place the list in the training space so that it can be referenced during the

rest of the workshop.

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