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TVL-AFA
Quarter 1 – Module 3
Agri-Crop Production NCII
Agri-crop Production NCII: Grade 11
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1-Module 3: Performing Nursery Operations (PNO)

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Agri-crop
Production NCII
Quarter 1 – Module 3
Performing Nursery Operations (PNO)

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Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Technical Vocational Livelihood Track (TVL) Grade 11 Learning

Module on Agri-crop production!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators to

assist teachers in helping learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while
overcoming their personal, social, economic and health constraints due to pandemic (covid-
19).

The module enables learner to engage into independent learning and guided
activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the
needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

Notes to the Teacher

This contains useful learning strategies that will
help you guide learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their
own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they
do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

Welcome to the TVL 11 Alternative Delivery Mode Learning Kit on Agri-crop

production!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be producing outputs
as you process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.
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This module has parts and icons that you need to know.

In this part, you will be able to know the things

What I Need to Know that you will learn in this module.

This is a test given to you to check how far you

What I Know know about the lesson to take.

This section gives activities that connect the

What’s In current lesson with the previous lesson.

This section gives an activity to present the

new topic. It also provides new concepts, skills
What’s New
insights for better learning.

This part elaborates further the content and

activity of the lessons for the learner to fully
What is It
understand.

This part provides dependent and independent

practices that will further enhance the learner’s
What’s More understanding on the topic. Correct answers of
the activities can be checked in the key
answer at the last part of the module.

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 This part gives the generalization of the
lesson. It somehow presents the important
What I Have Learned
ideas of the lesson presented in the module.

This section provides activities that will help

the learners internalize and apply the lesson
What I Can Do
he/she has learned into real-life situations.

This part evaluates the learner’s level of

Assessment mastery in achieving the learning objectives.

This part provides additional activities for

Additional Activities enrichment.

This section contains the correct answers of all

Answer Key the tests given in the module.

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Introduction

Agriculturists say that the most important factor is to maintain nursery facilities. Their
practices is found on Code of GAP which aimed towards prevention and minimization of risk
occurrences which include those of food safety, environmental impact, health workers,
safety and welfare, and product quality in the primary production and postharvest handling
of fresh produce intended for human consumption. It is envisioned that compliance of
farmers to these set of practices will enhance the trade and competitiveness of the country’s
agricultural products as well as promote consumer protection against food safety hazards.

In this module , you will meet a series of Learning Experiences namely how to
perform maintenance of nursery cleanliness and sanitation according to Phil GAP
standards ,repair and maintenance of nursery facilities to maximize their effectiveness ,
apply preventive measures for inclement weather and practice safety measures according to
OSHS .

What I Need to Know

In this module, you will learn to:

LO 2. MAINTAIN NURSERY FACILITIES

(TLE_AFAACP9-12PNO-Iid-f-17)

1. to perform maintenance of nursery cleanliness and sanitation according to Phil GAP

standard ,
[Link] repair and maintenance of nursery facilities to maximize their effectiveness ,
3. To apply preventive measures for inclement weather and practice safety measures
according to OSHS .

At the end of the module, you should be able to:

1. enumerate the maintenance of nursery cleanliness and sanitation according to Phil GAP
standard and repair and maintenance of nursery facilities to maximize their
effectiveness;
2. apply preventive measures for inclement weather and practice safety measures according
to OSHS ; and
3. value nursery cleanliness and sanitation according to , repair and maintenance of nursery
facilities to maximize their effectiveness .

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 What I Know

Pre-Test

Directions: Read each item carefully. In this module you will answer through multiple
choice. Do this in your notebook.

Remember, if you got perfect skip this module however if you got 1 or more mistakes
continue this module.

1. It is a certification system for agriculture , specifying procedures that must be

implemented to create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and whole
some , using sustainable methods.
a. Good Agricultural Practices
b. good man
c. helping a person
d. loyalty

2. It is a must to ensure good drainage system.

a. Kept free and clear
b. buy expensive materials
c. helping a person
d. None of these

3. What should be disposed properly It is used in farming and other agricultural facilities
a. Machinery
b. carpentry
c. equipment
d. ground

4. What should be disposed properly in designated areas to prevent contamination?

a. Rejected produce and waste material
b. [Link]
c. [Link]
d. d. manure

5. Which of the following should not be allowed to enter in the processing facilities to
prevent contamination of the produce?
a. Domestic animals
b. animals
c. plants
d. people
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6. It is a system of pest control to minimize pest infestation.
a. monitoring and management systems
b. good management
c. monitoring
d. active monitoring

7. What should be identified in the building a lay out map?

a. Traps and baits
b. traps
c. baits
d. exits

8. What is the most important factor farm sanitation?

a. Personal hygiene
b. personal beauty
c. good personality
d. natural beauty

9. Who is responsible to have appropriate knowledge with regards to personal hygiene

practices?
a. Workers
b. Employers
c. students
d. learners

10. Who needs to comply with farm hygiene regulations such as observance of the personal
cleanliness and appropriate clothing?
a. Farm workers
b. Employers
c. students
d. learners

11. What type of personal hygiene practices should be provided to workers on prominent
locations?
a. Written instructions
b. spoken instructions
c. verbal instructions
d. printed instructions

12. Who are required to provide medical and health cover in any serious health issue and
report to the relevant health authority?
a. Employers
b. workers
c. teachers
d. owners

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13. It is a safety measure that should be taken in order to ensure that the cultivation area is
free from possible sources of contamination.
a. Farm Sanitation
b. farm cleanliness
c. farm utilization
d. farm hygiene

[Link] specific areas can be a source of contamination ?

a. Packing, handling and storage
b. storage
c. handling
d. packing

[Link] specific step should be prepared and followed to minimize the risk these chemicals
causing contamination of the produce?
a. cleaning and sanitation
b. cleaning
c. sanitation
d. personal hygiene

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 What’s In

Activity 1

Directions: Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Explain how important cleanliness and sanitation in nursery operation.

What’s New

Activity 1. K-W-L Recovery

Directions: Enumerate the procedures in checking tools, farm implements and equipment in
accordance to Phil GAP. Write your answer on your separate answer sheet.

Guide questions:

1. Why is a good agricultural practice an assurance to a customer when producing

products ?
2. Why do farm workers need to comply with farm hygiene regulations such as observance
of personal cleanliness and appropriate clothing?
[Link] are some examples of farm hygiene that has to be done by every farmers?
[Link] are the preventive measures for inclement weather ?
[Link] are the safety measures according to OSHS?

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 What is it

How do we perform maintenance of nursery cleanliness and sanitation according to

Phil GAP standard?

 Good Agricultural Practices is an assurance to our customers that thought and

actions have been exercised to minimize the potential for fresh produce
contamination by pathogens.
 Floors should be designed with appropriate slopes, drainage channels and
 Kept free and clear to ensure good drainage system.
 Produce handling facilities and equipment such as process lines.
 Machinery, floors, storage areas, pallets as well as floors and walls should be
cleaned and/or maintained regularly to prevent contamination
 Rejected produce and waste material should be disposed properly in designated
areas to prevent contamination of the produce.
 Cleaning agents, lubricants, etc. should be kept in a designated area that is
separate and apart from packing area to avoid chemical contamination of produce.
 Domestic animals should not be allowed to enter processing facilities to prevent
contamination of the produce.
 There must be monitoring and management systems for pest control to avoid or
minimize pest infestation.
 Traps and baits should be identified in the building lay out map.
 Personal hygiene and farm sanitation is very important .
 Workers should have appropriate knowledge or must be trained in personal hygiene
practices.
 Farm workers should comply with farm hygiene regulations such as observance of
personal cleanliness and appropriate clothing (i.e. hand washing, wearing of jewelry
and fingernail length and cleaning, etc) and personal behavior (i.e. no 863 smoking,
spiting, eating, chewing, etc).
 Written instructions on personal hygiene practices should be provided to workers or
displayed on prominent locations.
 Fixed or mobile toilets and hand washing facilities should be available and
accessible to the workers and should be properly maintained in good hygienic
condition.
 Fixed or mobile toilets and hand washing facilities should be located in an
appropriate area.
 Where employers are required to provide medical and health cover, any serious
health issue is reported to the relevant health authority.
 Farm Sanitation measures should be taken in order to ensure that the cultivation
area is free from possible sources of contamination (e.g. litter, etc.).
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  Packing, handling and storage areas that can be sources of contamination should
be identified.
 Cleaning and sanitation procedures should be prepared and followed. Appropriate
cleaning and sanitation chemicals are selected to minimise the risk these chemicals
causing contamination of the produce.

Repair and maintenance of nursery facilities to maximize their

effectiveness.

Waste management and energy efficiency. A farm should have an operational waste
management plan and should be properly followed. PHILIPPINE NATIONAL
STANDARD_Draft as of April 29, 2017 PNS/BAFS 49:201_ Code of Good Agricultural
Practices (GAP) for Fruits and Vegetables Farming . Consumption of electricity and fuel
should be monitored and reviewed for efficient and optimized operation in which power and
fuel bills may be of assistance. Machinery and equipment should be serviced to maintain
operational efficiency.

Preventive Measures for Inclement Weather and Practice Safety

Measures According to OSHS :

Hazard Prevention and Control

Effective controls protect workers from workplace hazards; help avoid injuries, illnesses, and
incidents; minimize or eliminate safety and health risks; and help employers provide workers
with safe and healthful working conditions. The processes described in this section will help
employers prevent and control hazards identified in the previous section.

To effectively control and prevent hazards, employers should:

 Involve workers, who often have the best understanding of the conditions that create
hazards and insights into how they can be controlled.
 Identify and evaluate options for controlling hazards, using a "hierarchy of controls."
 Use a hazard control plan to guide the selection and implementation of controls, and
implement controls according to the plan.
 Develop plans with measures to protect workers during emergencies and non-routine
activities.
 Evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls to determine whether they continue to
provide protection, or whether different controls may be more effective. Review new
technologies for their potential to be more protective, more reliable, or less costly.

1: Identify control options

2: Select controls

3: Develop and update a hazard control plan

4: Select controls to protect workers during non-routine operations and emergencies

5: Implement selected controls in the workplace

6: Follow up to confirm that controls are effective

Action item 1: Identify control options

A wealth of information exists to help employers investigate options for controlling

identified hazards. Before selecting any control options, it is essential to solicit workers' input
on their feasibility and effectiveness.

How to accomplish it

Collect, organize, and review information with workers to determine what types of
hazards may be present and which workers may be exposed or potentially exposed.
Information available in the workplace may include:

 Review sources such as OSHA standards and guidance, industry consensus standards,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) publications,
manufacturers' literature, and engineering reports to identify potential control measures.
Keep current on relevant information from trade or professional associations.
 Investigate control measures used in other workplaces and determine whether they
would be effective at your workplace.
 Get input from workers who may be able to suggest and evaluate solutions based on
their knowledge of the facility, equipment, and work processes.
 For complex hazards, consult with safety and health experts, including OSHA's On-site
Consultation Program.

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2: Select controls

Employers should select the controls that are the most feasible, effective, and permanent.

How to accomplish it

 Eliminate or control all serious hazards (hazards that are causing or are likely to cause
death or serious physical harm) immediately.
 Use interim controls while you develop and implement longer-term solutions.
 Select controls according to a hierarchy that emphasizes engineering solutions
(including elimination or substitution) first, followed by safe work practices, administrative
controls, and finally personal protective equipment.
 Avoid selecting controls that may directly or indirectly introduce new hazards. Examples
include exhausting contaminated air into occupied work spaces or using hearing
protection that makes it difficult to hear backup alarms.
 Review and discuss control options with workers to ensure that controls are feasible and
effective.
 Use a combination of control options when no single method fully protects workers.

Note: Whenever possible, select equipment, machinery, and materials that are inherently
safer based on the application of "Prevention through Design" (PtD) principles. Apply PtD
when making your own facility, equipment, or product design decisions. For more
information, see the link to the NIOSH PtD initiative in Additional Resources.

3: Develop and update a hazard control plan

A hazard control plan describes how the selected controls will be implemented. An
effective plan will address serious hazards first. Interim controls may be necessary, but the
overall goal is to ensure effective long-term control of hazards. It is important to track
progress toward completing the control plan and periodically (at least annually and when
conditions, processes or equipment change) verify that controls remain effective.

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How to accomplish it

 List the hazards needing controls in order of priority.

 Assign responsibility for installing or implementing the controls to a specific person or
persons with the power or ability to implement the controls.
 Establish a target completion date.
 Plan how you will track progress toward completion.
 Plan how you will verify the effectiveness of controls after they are installed or
implemented.

4: Select controls to protect workers during non-routine operations and emergencies

The hazard control plan should include provisions to protect workers during non-
routine operations and foreseeable emergencies. Depending on your workplace, these could
include fires and explosions; chemical releases; hazardous material spills; unplanned
equipment shutdowns; infrequent maintenance activities; natural and weather disasters;
workplace violence; terrorist or criminal attacks; disease outbreaks (e.g., pandemic
influenza); or medical emergencies. Non-routine tasks, or tasks workers don't normally do,
should be approached with particular caution. Prior to initiating such work, review job hazard
analyses and job safety analyses with any workers involved and notify others about the
nature of the work, work schedule, and any necessary precautions.

How to accomplish it

 Develop procedures to control hazards that may arise during non-routine operations
(e.g., removing machine guarding during maintenance and repair).
 Develop or modify plans to control hazards that may arise in emergency situations.
 Procure any equipment needed to control emergency-related hazards.
 Assign responsibilities for implementing the emergency plan.
 Conduct emergency drills to ensure that procedures and equipment provide adequate
protection during emergency situations.

Note: Depending on your location, type of business, and materials stored or used on site,
authorities including local fire and emergency response departments, state agencies, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and OSHA
may have additional requirements for emergency plans. Ensure that your procedures comply
with these requirements.

5: Implement selected controls in the workplace

Once hazard prevention and control measures have been identified, they should be
implemented according to the hazard control plan.

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How to accomplish it

 Implement hazard control measures according to the priorities established in the hazard
control plan.
 When resources are limited, implement measures on a "worst-first" basis, according to
the hazard ranking priorities (risk) established during hazard identification and
assessment. (Note, however, that regardless of limited resources, employers have an
obligation to protect workers from recognized, serious hazards.)
 Promptly implement any measures that are easy and inexpensive—e.g., general
housekeeping, removal of obvious tripping hazards such as electrical cords, basic
lighting—regardless of the level of hazard they involve.

6: Follow up to confirm that controls are effective

To ensure that control measures are and remain effective, employers should track
progress in implementing controls, inspect and evaluate controls once they are installed, and
follow routine preventive maintenance practices.

How to accomplish it

 Track progress and verify implementation by asking the following questions:

o Have all control measures been implemented according to the hazard control plan?
o Have engineering controls been properly installed and tested?
o Have workers been appropriately trained so that they understand the controls,
including how to operate engineering controls, safe work practices, and PPE use
requirements?
o Are controls being used correctly and consistently?
 Conduct regular inspections (and industrial hygiene monitoring, if indicated) to confirm
that engineering controls are operating as designed.
 Evaluate control measures to determine if they are effective or need to be modified.
Involve workers in the evaluation of the controls. If controls are not effective, identify,
select, and implement further control measures that will provide adequate protection.
 Confirm that work practices, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment
use policies are being followed.
 Conduct routine preventive maintenance of equipment, facilities, and controls to help
prevent incidents due to equipment failure.
 Duties

Each employer

 shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which
are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or
serious physical harm to his employees;

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  shall comply with occupational safety and health
standards promulgated under this Act.
 (b)
 Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and
health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders
issued pursuant to this Act which are applicable to his
own actions and conduct.

So, this is it. You are

now one step closer to
your finale.

What’s More

Activity 1:

Direction: Write your answers in your notebook.

I. Enumerate the maintenance of nursery cleanliness and sanitation according to Phil GAP
standard and repair and maintenance of nursery facilities to maximize their effectiveness.

II. Give atleast five preventive measures for inclement weather and practice safety measures
according to OSHS .

Guide questions:

1. Based on your own idea how important are those safety measures in nursery operations?

Activity 2: Skill-Analysis

Direction: Read and understand the questions carefully. Write your answers in a separate
sheet of paper.

I. Site situations wherein cleanliness and sanitation should be done or put into practice,
base your answers on the discussion.

Activity 3

I. Write a certain scenario in which safety measures can be observed.

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 Activity 4

1. Give at least five ways on how to perform maintenance for nursery cleanliness and
sanitation according to Phil GAP standard .

Guide Questions:

1. How is it important to a person to be in a proper hygiene?

2. How do nursery facilities maximize efficiency and effectiveness in the operation?

Activity 5
Directions: Write true if the statement is true and write false if the statement is wrong.

1. Conduct regular inspections (and industrial hygiene monitoring, if indicated) to

confirm that engineering controls are operating as designed.
2. Evaluate control measures to determine if they are effective or need to be modified.
Involve workers in the evaluation of the controls. If controls are not effective, identify,
select, and implement further control measures that will provide adequate protection.
3. Confirm that work practices, administrative controls, and personal protective
equipment use policies are being followed.
4. Conduct routine preventive maintenance of equipment, facilities, and controls to help
prevent incidents due to equipment failure.
5. shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment
which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to his employees.

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 What I Have Learned

Direction: In the box, you are going to state your learnings you have gained from this topic.
Do not forget to write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

I have learned that

_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_________________

The importance of
_____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

Activity 1: Be With Me

Direction: Choose one activity as your final output that applies to you:

For your individual performance let somebody in your family to take a picture on the
ways on how do you apply preventive measures for inclement weather and practice safety
measures according to OSHS or take a video and send it on my messenger.

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 Assessment

Post Test

Task: Be alert to analyze and recall the discussion that we have today !

Directions: Choose the correct letter answer in the given questions below. Answer this in a
sheet of paper.

1. It is a certification system for agriculture , specifying procedures that must be

implemented to create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and whole
some , using sustainable methods.
[Link] Agricultural Practices
[Link] man
[Link] a person
[Link]

2. It is a must to ensure good drainage system.

[Link] free and clear
[Link] expensive materials
c. helping a person
d. None of these

3. What should be disposed properly It is used in farming and other agricultural facilities
[Link] [Link] [Link] [Link]

4. What should be disposed properly in designated areas to prevent contamination?

a. Rejected produce and waste material
b. equipment
c. garbage
d. manure

5. Which of the following should not be allowed to enter in the processing facilities to
prevent contamination of the produce?
[Link] animals [Link] c. plants d. people

6. It is a system of pest control to minimize pest infestation .

[Link] and management systems
b. good management
c. monitoring
[Link] monitoring
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7. What should be identified in the building a lay out map ?
 [Link] and baits b. traps c. baits [Link]

8. What is the most important factor farm sanitation?

[Link] hygiene b. personal beauty c. good personality [Link] beauty

9. Who is responsible to have appropriate knowledge with regards to personal hygiene

practices?
[Link] b. Employers c. students [Link]

10. Who needs to comply with farm hygiene regulations such as observance of the personal
cleanliness and appropriate clothing?
a. Farm workers b. Employers c. students [Link]

11. What type of personal hygiene practices should be provided to workers on prominent
locations?
a. Written instructions
b. spoken instructions
c. verbal instructions
d. printed instructions

12. Who are required to provide medical and health cover in any serious health issue and
report to the relevant health authority?
[Link] b. workers c. teachers [Link]

13. It is a safety measure that should be taken in order to ensure that the cultivation area is
free from possible sources of contamination.
a. Farm Sanitation b. farm cleanliness c. farm utilization [Link] hygiene

14. What specific areas can be a source of contamination ?

[Link], handling and storage [Link] [Link] [Link]

15. What specific step should be prepared and followed to minimize the risk these
chemicals causing contamination of the produce?
a. cleaning and sanitation b. cleaning c. sanitation [Link] hygiene

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 Additional Activities

Activity 2: ESSAY

Direction: Analyze and understand the following questions.

Answer the following questions in your notebook.

1. Why is it essential to clean and sanitize the nursery facilities?

2. What are the necessary ways you need to maximize efficiently and effectively in the
maintenance of nursery facilities?

Activity 3
1. Learning how to maintain nursery facilities , what advantages can you give to the farmers
for them to be more equipt in the field?

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 Answer Key

Pre-Test

1.a 2. a 3.a 4.a 5.a 6.a 7.a 8.a 9.a 10.a

11.a 12.a 13.a 14.a 15.a

Post Test

1.a 2.a 3.a 4.a 5.a 6.a 7.a 8.a 9.a

10.a

11.a 12.a 13.a 14.a 15.a

Additional Activities:

Activity 1-Video
Activity 2- Essay
Activity 3-Essay
Activity 4
1. Floors should be designed with appropriate slopes, drainage channels and
2. Kept free and clear to ensure good drainage system.
3. Produce handling facilities and equipment such as process lines.
4. Machinery, floors, storage areas, pallets as well as floors and walls should be
cleaned and/or maintained regularly to prevent contamination
5. Rejected produce and waste material should be disposed properly in designated
areas to prevent contamination of the produce.

Activity 5 ([Link] [Link] 3. True 4. True 5. True )

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Department of Education – Region VII, Division of Guihulngan City

Osmeña Ave., Poblacion, Guihulngan City

Telefax: 4069, (035) 910-4066

Email Address: [Link]@[Link]

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