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 the focus of a tricot project, there would be three bags with the same quantity of seed of three different varieties. The bags are always marked with “A”, “B”, and “C”, as well as the package code. The package code allows the project administrator to know which technology options (for example, varieties) correspond to A, B, and C.
- Observation card
- There can also be an explanatory brochure about the tricot process.
This is what a trial package may look like. This is all put into one bag and handed over to the participant.