The trial package is a bag given to every participant at the initial training workshop. It contains everything the participant needs to cultivate her/his tricot trial. The trial packages are prepared by the administrator and field agents. Each trial package contains: Three small bags containing the different technology options. For example, if bean varieties are […]
Category: Tricot: Key terms and definitions
Technology
Using the tricot approach, many agricultural technologies can be tested and innovated. For example: Crop varieties Fertilizer regimes Irrigation systems Pest management strategies Soil management strategies etc. Every tricot project focuses on one technology (for example, ‘fertilizer composition’), but tests a number of different technology options (fertilizer composition 1, fertilizer composition 2, etc.). In the […]
Tricot experiment
A tricot experiment (or tricot project) refers to the whole process of putting the tricot approach into action. That is, engaging a large number of participants in testing a range of technology options in random sub-sets of three technology option per participant. A tricot experiment, or tricot project consists of many small tricot trials.
Tricot trial
Tricot trial refers to the cultivation and observation; or testing, of three technology options by a single participant. Trials in tricot are decentralized. All tricot trials taken together make up a tricot experiment.