Principles of PalayCheck

• Principle 1. Rice Integrated Crop Management (RICM)- rice growing is seen as a complete production system.
  Rice growing is a total production system and integrated management is essential as each single practice and output interacts with other practices, and affects a range of outputs of management that ultimately combine to give the yield, grain quality, and environmental


• Principle 2. Inputs, Outputs, and Outcomes – differentiating between practices and the results
  Management inputs (the practices or what the farmer needs to do) are different from the management outputs (the results of these practices or what the farmer is trying to achieve); the management of inputs must achieve optimum level of outputs at all growth stages and management areas to achieve optimum yields and other outcomes.


• Principle 3. Key Outputs – identifying the most important factors in management
  Some management outputs or results of practices are more important than others in managing the rice crop to achieve improved yield and other outcomes.

• Principle 4. Key Checks – using Key Outputs as targets of management practices and subsequently, as benchmarks
  Management can only be effectively evaluated by comparing or checking the Outputs or results of management with the Key Outputs as benchmarks of the original objectives of that management.


• Principle 5. Changing farmers’ practices – farmers identifying good practices as a prescursor to change
  The strengths and weaknesses of farm management must be identified and recognized by the farmer before these can be changed; and yield, grain quality, and environmental outcomes can be improved.


• Principle 6. Farmer group – collaborative learning with others.
  PalayCheck must be learnt by farmers and an effective learning forum is through the farmer group, which facilitates farmer participation in a collaborative learning environment.

• PalayCheck System
  
• Implementing PalayCheck
  
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