Senior High School Specialized Subject: Organic Agriculture
Organic Agriculture is one of the specialized subjects under the technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) career track. Some examples of the things that you will learn from taking this subject include:
- Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECS)
- Assessment of personal competencies and skills
- Environment and Market
- Key concepts of market
- Players in the market
- Products and services available in the market
- Consumer analysis
- Raising Organic Chicken
- Select healthy stock and suitable housing
- Set-up cage equipment
- Feed Chicken
- Grow and Harvest Chicken
- Organic Vegetable Production
- Establish Nursery
- Plant seedlings
- Perform plant care and management
- Harvest and Post-harvest Activities
- Prepare composting area and raw materials
- Compost and harvest fertilizer
- Organic Concoction Production
- Prepare for the production of various concoction and extracts
- Process concoctions
- Package concoctions
While studying, you will also be asked to demonstrate what you have learned by participating in class activities that may include the following:
- Recognizing PECs needed in organic agriculture
- Recognizing and understanding the market and potential market in organic agriculture
- Creating new business ideas in organic agriculture
- Selecting healthy stocks and suitable housing
- Determining suitable site for chicken house
- Setting up brooding facility based on the housing equipment installation design
- Preparing feed materials following prescribed formulation
- Collecting and formulating organic waste for fertilizer
- Selecting suitable chicken for harvest based on market specifications
- Performing land preparations according to prescribed practice
- Identifying beneficial microorganism and introduce it prior to planting vegetable crops
- Transplanting vegetable seedlings
- Implementing water management system according to plan
- Determining effective control measures for specific pests and diseases
- Checking products using maturity indices of vegetable crops
- Classifying marketable products
- Applying appropriate composting method based on production requirements
- Monitoring compost based on Philippine National Standard’s indications of fully decomposed fertilizer
- Fermenting various organic concoctions following organic practices
- Labeling and tagging packaged concoctions according to industry practice
These examples only cover the scope of the specialized subjects under the technical-vocational livelihood career track. For the scope of the core and contextualized subjects under the senior high school curriculum, please refer to their respective lists.