TESDA

1. Introduction to OAP NCII,
The PNS and Farm Tools
Group 1
Jenny Mae Abuel
Jehanne Kaiza Ayangco
Jessa Beatriz
John Raymond Balena
Bernardo Deapera

2. Organic Agriculture Production NC II
• It is a course that designed to enhance the knowledge, desirable skills and attitudes
of ORGANIC AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION NC II in accordance with
industry standards.
• It is consists of four (4) competencies that a person must achieve to produce
organic farm products such as chicken and vegetables including producing organic
supplements such as fertilizer, concoctions and extracts.

3. The Four (4) Competencies
1. Basic Competencies
✓ Participate in workplace
communication
✓ Work in a team environment
✓ Practice professionalism
✓ Practice occupational health and safety
procedures
2. Common Competencies
✓ Apply safety measures in farm
operations
✓ Use farm tools and equipment
✓ Perform estimation and calculations
✓ Develop and update industry
knowledge
✓ Perform record keeping

4. The Four (4) Competencies
3. Core Competencies
✓ Raise organic chicken
✓ Produce organic vegetables
✓ Produce organic fertilizer
✓ Produce organic concoction and
extracts
4. Elective Competencies
✓ Raise organic hog
✓Raise organic small ruminants

5. PHILIPPINE NATIONAL STANDARDS

6. Philippine National Standards
Republic Act 10068
• The Organic Agriculture Act of 2010
• It aims to promotes, propagate,
develop further and implement the
practice of organic agriculture in the
Philippines
Republic Act 11511
• An Act Amending the organic Agriculture
Act of 2010
• Increase farmers income
• Encourage the participation of the
indigenous organic farmers in promoting
their sustainable practice
• Save on imported farm inputs and
promote food self-sufficiency
The central amendment to RA 10068 is Section 3 which has the provision on the addition and promotion
of the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), a second-party certifier on OA products.

7. Organic Agriculture
• Is a production system that sustains the
health of soils, ecosystems and people.
• It relies on ecological process, biodiversity
and cycles adapted to local conditions
rather than the use of inputs with adverse
effects
• It combines tradition, innovation and
science to benefit the shared environment
and promote fair relationship and a good
quality of life for all involved

8. Participatory Guarantee System
(PGS)
• The act RA 11511 was originally known as
the Participatory Guarantee System.
• On June 4, 2021 the PGS was formally
launched by the DA pursuant to RA 11511
• This event also introduced the Philippine
Guaranteed Organic Mark for organic
products which is particularly beneficial
for Filipino exporters of OA products.

9. Organic Certification

10. Importance Certification
Consumer protection
• is the protection of buyers of goods and services against low quality
or dangerous products and advertisements that deceive people
An effective marketing tool
• marketing tools refers to tools, techniques or strategies used to
help develop, improve and promote a business products and
services
Adds value to the product
• helps the companies attract more customers, which can boost
revenue and profits.

11. Three Types of Organic
Certification
1st Party certification
• the product is certified by the farmer and sold within the
locality
2nd Party Certification
• the product is certified by the consumer and sold within
the locality
3rd Party Certification
• the product is certified by a DA-accredited private
entities and being sold outside the locality

12. DA-Accredited Certifying Bodies
1. Negros Island Certification (Nicert)
• Provides inspection and Certification services to producers or processors of
organic product
2. Organic Certification Center of the Philippines (OCCP)
• Serve certification and inspection body for food and food product and agricultural
inputs to cater the agricultural industry and the consumers of certified products
3. Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

13. Certification Fees
• Ranges from P20,000 – P65, 000
• Validity: 12 months
• Huge sum but you can avail of government subsidy

14. Penalty for Mislabeling “Organikuno”
Imprisonment
• 1 month – 6 months
Fine
• P50,000

15. Farming Tools

16. Hand Tools
1. Bolo
• Used for cutting tall grasses and
weeds and chopping branches of
trees
2. Crowbar
• Use for digging big holes and for
digging out big stones and stumps

17. 3. Pick-mattock
• Used for digging canals, breaking hard
topsoil and for digging up stones and
tree stump
4. Grab-hoe
• Used for breaking hard topsoil and
pulverizing soil

18. 5. Spade
• Used for removing trash or soil, digging
canals or ditches and mixing soil media
6. Shovel
• Used in removing trash, digging loose soil,
moving soil from one place to another and
for mixing soil media

19. 7. Rake
• Used for cleaning the ground and levelling
the topsoil
8. Spading fork
• Used for loosening the soil, digging out
root crops and turning over the materials
in a compost heap

20. 9. Light hoe
• Used for loosening and levelling soil and
digging out furrows for planting
10. Hand trowel
• Used for loosening the soil around the
growing plants and putting small amount
of manure fertilizer in the soil

21. 11. Hand cultivator
• Used for cultivating the garden plot by
loosening the soil and removing weeds
around the plant
12. Hand fork
• Used for inter row cultivation

22. 13. Pruning shears
• Used for cutting branches of planting
materials and unnecessary branches of
plants
14. Axe
• Used for cutting bigger size post

23. 15. Knife
• Used for cutting planting materials and for
performing other operations in
horticulture
16. Sprinklers
• Used for watering seedlings and young
plants

24. 17. Water pails
• Used for hauling water, manure and
fertilizers
18. Sprayers
• Used for spraying insecticides, foliar
fertilizer, fungicides and herbicides

25. 19. Wheel barrow
• Used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers,
planting materials and other equipment
20. Sickle
• A hand-held agricultural tool with a
variously curved blade typically used for
cutting weeds

26. “Investment in Agriculture are the best weapons against
hunger and poverty and they have made life better for billions
of people”
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation