ORGANIC

AGRICULTURE
PRODUCTION NC
Roberto C. Mendoza
Specific Objective
The objective of ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
PRODUCTION NC II Qualification consists of
competencies that a person must achieve to
produce organic farm products such as chicken and
vegetables including producing of organic
supplements such as fertilizer, concoctions and
extracts. It has two (2) elective competencies
which are on raising organic hogs and raising
organic small ruminants.
A person who has achieved this
Qualification is competent to be:
 Organic Agriculture Farmer
 Organic Chicken Raiser
 Organic Hogs Raiser
 Organic Small Ruminants Raiser
 Organic Vegetables Farmer
 Organic Concoctions and Extracts Producer
 Organic Fertilizer Producer
Code No. BASIC COMPETENCIES
500311103 Participate in Workplace Communication
500311104 Work in a Team Environment 18 hours
500311113 Practice Career Professionalism
500311114 Practice Occupational Health and Safety Procedures
Code No, COMMON COMPETENCIES
AGR321201 Apply safety measures in farm operations
AGR321202
AGR321203
Use farm tools and equipment
Perform estimation and calculations
64hours
TRS311201 Develop and update industry knowledge
AGR321205 Perform record keeping
Code No. CORE COMPETENCIES
AGR612301 Raise organic chicken
AGR611306 Produce organic vegetables 96 hours
AGR611301 Produce organic fertilizer
AGR611302 Produce organic concoctions and extracts
Code No. ELECTIVE COMPETENCIES
AGR612302 Raise organic hogs
Raise organic small ruminants
54 hours
AGR612303
 Select healthy stocks

Establish nursery
RAISE ORGANIC CHICKEN
Determine suitable
chicken house

PRODUCE ORGANIC
requirements

VEGETABLES
Install cage (housing) Plant seedlings
equipment

Feed Chicken Perform plant care

activities and
management
Manage health and
growth of chicken Perform harvest and
post-harvest activities
Harvest chicken
 CONCOCTIONS AND EXTRACTS
Prepare composting Prepare for the
area
PRODUCE ORGANIC

production of

PRODUCE ORGANIC
various concoction
FERTILIZER

Prepare raw
materials
Process
concoctions
Carry out
composting process
Package
Harvest compost concoctions
 Choose /Select healthy
Choose /Select healthy breeders
domestic hogs
Determine suitable small
RAISE ORGANIC HOGS

RAISE ORGANIC SMALL

ruminants cage (housing)

RUMINANTS (GOAT)
Determine suitable hog requirements
house requirements
Install cage (housing)
requirements
Feed hogs

Feed small ruminants

Manage health and
growth of hogs
Manage health, growth and
breeding of small ruminants

Finish hogs Harvest (Finish) small

ruminants
TRAINING DELIVERY
The delivery of training should adhere to the
design of the curriculum. Delivery should be
guided by the 10 basic principles of
competency-based TVET.
The competency-based TVET system
recognizes various types of delivery modes,
both on and off-the-job as long as the learning
is driven by the competency standards
specified by the industry.
TRAINEE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Trainees or students wishing to enroll in this
course should possess the following
requirements.
• Able to read and write;
• With good moral character;
• Ability to communicate, both oral and
written
• Physically fit and mentally healthy as
certified by a Public Health Officer
TRAINER’S QUALIFICATIONS
Trainers who will deliver the training on
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION NC
II should have the following :

• Must be a holder of National TVET

Trainer Certificate I (TM I and NC)
• 1 year relevant industry experience
• 80 Hours teaching experience
 NATIONAL
ASSESSMENT AND
CERTIFICATION
ARRANGEMENTS
To attain the National Qualification of Organic
Agriculture Production NC II, the candidate must
demonstrate competence in all units listed in
Section 1. Successful candidates shall be awarded
a National Certificate signed by the TESDA
Director General.
Organic Agriculture Production NC II can be
attained through accumulation of COCs of the
four (4) Core Competencies and one (1)
Elective Competencies.
CORE COMPETENCIES

Raise organic chicken

Produce organic vegetables
Produce organic fertilizer
Produce organic concoctions and extracts

ELECTIVE COMPETENCIES
Raise organic hogs
Raise organic small ruminants
 National Certificate NCII
Organic Agriculture Production NCII
Organic Agriculture Production (Raise
Organic Hogs) NCII
Organic Agriculture Production (Raise
Organic Small Ruminants) NCII
CLARA MARA MIH
 TM Certificate I
A Trainers Methodology
Certificate is a document
CLARA MARA MIH issued to trainers who have
achieved all the required
units of competency
identified in each
qualification level under
the PTTQF.
Certificates will be
issued by the RO with five
(5) years validity
 CLARA MARA MIH

CLARA MARA MIH

 NTTC Certificate Republic of the Philippines
Department of Labor and Employment
TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

This certifies that

CLARA MARA MIH

has successfully completed the requirements under the Philippine
TVET Trainers Qualification System (PTTQS) for

NATIONAL TVET TRAINER

CERTIFICATE
In I
LEVEL

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICING NC II

Certificate will be
issued by the CACO Certificate No.

111203020001
_________________ Clara Mara Mih
________________________
and Issued on:
Signature of the certificate holder

August 1, 2011
shall be valid only _________________
NTTC Level IValid
Certificate
until: February 3, 2016
CLN-NTC-000001
until the expiry date _________________
SELF ASSESSMENT
GUIDE
Raise Organic Chicken
• Select healthy chick considered as a good stock for raising organic chicken and identify sick and
desirable stocks *
• Maintain cleanliness and orderliness of an organic poultry farm *
• Apply appropriate space requirements and determine chicken house suitable for growing
organic chicken *
• Demonstrate correct brooding of chicks *
• Differentiate the feeding requirements of a brooding chicks and a growing chicken *
• Schedule and apply effective nutritional requirements for poultry on various physiological
stages *
• Apply appropriate preventive measure to protect stocks from diseases *
• Accomplish appropriate records and maintain record book *
• Identify the age of an organic chicken ready for harvest *
• Perform pre and post-laying activities *
• Enumerate common facilities found in the chicken pen and identify basic materials for chicken
beddings *
• Identify common elements in the feed formulation *
• Implement the Philippine National Standards (PNS) for organic livestock in the farm *
Produce Organic Vegetable
• Demonstrate land preparation for vegetable gardening*
• Demonstrate good seedbed preparation*
• Select good seeds according to Philippine National Standards (PNS)*
• Describe ideal characteristics of an organic nursery
• Demonstrate planting procedures and processes in planting and transplanting various
vegetable*
• Demonstrate proper application of basal and foliar fertilizers in vegetables*
• Identify different maturity indices of common vegetables in the Philippines*
• Perform plant care activities*
• Maintain safety, proper use of PPE, orderliness and cleanliness in the farm*
• Accomplish appropriate records including inventory and volume of product harvested*
• Identify common types of pest and vegetable diseases*
• Identify organic methods of preventing and controlling pest and diseases for vegetables*
Produce Organic Fertilizer
• Determine the characteristics of a good composting site*
• Identify the basic raw materials for composting*
• Identify the raw materials for foliar fertilizer*
• Determine the production of vermicast and vermicomposting*
• Determine processes in foliar fertilizer formulation*
• Apply foliar fertilizer*
• Determine the similarities and differences between basal and foliar fertilizers*
• Determine the application and relevance of Carbon and Nitrogen (C/N) ratio*
• Determine the advantages of an organic fertilizer over a chemical based fertilizer*
• Determine the positive contributions of an organic fertilizers to the environment*
• Identify safety factors in the preparation and processing of organic fertilizers*
• Determine the proper application of fertilizer to soil and plant
• Identify elements that makes fertilizers organic
• Preserve the potency of organic fertilizer
• Identify important elements present in an organic fertilizer*
• Maintain record in the production of organic fertilizer*
• Prepare plan in the implementation of PNS for organic fertilizer
• Determine requirements in the establishment of commercial organic fertilizer production
Produce of Organic Concoctions / Extracts
• Identify and discuss kinds of concoctions used for fertilizers*
• Identify and discuss kinds of concoctions used for livestocks*
• Demonstrate at least one concoction preparation*
• Discuss on how to protect concoction from any form of contaminations*
• Demonstrate and discuss application of procedures in sanitation and sterilization
and how they differ from each other
• Enumerate and identify the basic tools / equipment used in the preparation of
concoctions
• Discuss how to package concoctions safely*
• Discuss importance of labelling the containers with concoctions under process
• Identify where to store concoctions and discuss how to store concoctions
• Discuss how to use concoction as food supplement for livestock
• Solve routine problems pertinent to production of organic concoction / extracts
Raise Organic Hog
• Identify traits of various breeder*
• Identify characteristics of healthy piglet for raising organic hog
• Identify common traits of a hog for organic raising
• Determine suitable house for growing organic hog*
• Enumerate basic materials for hog house beddings
• Identify fertility period of trained boar*
• Enumerate common elements in feed formulation*
• Identify appropriate preventive measures to protect stock from diseases*
• Distinguish/identify “in heat” and pregnant hog*
• Provide different organic feeding requirement*
• Formulate efficient herd health program*
• Handle pregnant animal and operate nursery*
• Record data on operation, stocks and inventory*
• Follow regulatory measures (municipal ordinance, RA 10068, PNS)
• Provide optimum space requirements of animal stock*
• Raise piglet to market age*
Raise Organic Small Ruminants
• Identify genetically superior breeds of goats and sheep*
• Select and handle breeder goats and sheep*
• Handle does and ewes appropriately
• Apply proper feeding practices
• Identify important forages for goat feeds*
• Maintain pasture areas
• Apply proper herd health program and appropriate preventive measures to protect stock from diseases*
• Determine house suitable for growing organic goat
• Compute feeds and space requirements*
• Identify basic materials for goat house beddings
• Enumerate common facilities found in a goat house*
• Identify elements that makes goat organically raised
• Identify and enumerate common elements in feed formulation*
• Operate and maintain farm tools and equipment*
• Record data on operation, stocks and inventory*
• Solve routine problems related to small ruminants production*
• Observe harvesting protocol of an organic goats*
• Apply regulatory measures pertinent to animal (movements, RA 10068, Philippine National Standards)
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