{"id":319,"date":"2020-03-26T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/?p=319"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:01:10","slug":"field-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/field-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Field agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>field agent<\/strong> is the extension worker, linking the implementer and the <a href=\"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/grower\/\">participants<\/a>. A tricot project might employ 20 to 30 field agents. Each field agent can cover a different geographical region, and can coordinate 10 to 20 participants. Field agents are vital to a tricot project, as they allow many small trials to take place in different regions at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Field agents get trained by the implementer, and in turn pass their knowledge on to the participants. The implementer can also be a field agent, herself. Likewise, a field agent can also participate in the tricot project as an observer.<\/p>\n<p>The tasks of field agents include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Staying in personal contact with participants<\/li>\n<li>Assisting participants with trial cultivation and data collection<\/li>\n<li>Collecting participants\u2019 observations at the end of the trial through personal visits or telephone calls<\/li>\n<li>Passing on participant data to the implementer, using the ODK Collect app<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field agent is the extension worker, linking the implementer and the participants. A tricot project might employ 20 to 30 field agents. Each field agent can cover a different geographical region, and can coordinate 10 to 20 participants. Field agents are vital to a tricot project, as they allow many small trials to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glossary","category-tricot_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climmob.net\/blog\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}