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TLE - AFA (AGRCLTURAL

CROP PRODUCTION)
Activity Sheet - Quarter 2 – MELC 4

LO 3. Handle materials and equipment

REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS

TLE 9 - AFA (AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION)
Activity Sheet No. 4
First Edition, 2020
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Introductory Message
Welcome to TLE 9 -AFA (AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION)!

The Learning Activity Sheet is a product of the collaborative efforts of the

Schools Division of Negros Occidental and DepEd Regional Office VI - Western
Visayas through the Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD). This is
developed to guide the learning facilitators (teachers, parents and responsible
adults) in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Basic Education
Curriculum.

The Learning Activity Sheet is self-directed instructional materials aimed to

guide the learners in accomplishing activities at their own pace and time using the
contextualized resources in the community. This will also assist the learners in
acquiring the lifelong learning skills, knowledge and attitudes for productivity and
employment.

For learning facilitator:

The TLE 9 -AFA (AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION) Activity Sheet will help you
facilitate the leaching-learning activities specified in each Most Essential Learning
Competency (MELC) with minimal or no face-to-face encounter between you and
learner. This will be made available to the learners with the references/links to ease
the independent learning.

For the learner:

The TLE9 - AFA (AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION) Activity Sheet is developed to

help you continue learning even if you are not in school. This learning material
provides you with meaningful and engaging activities for independent learning. Being
an active learner, carefully read and understand the instructions then perform the
activities and answer the assessments. This will be returned to your facilitator on the
agreed schedule.
 Quarter 2 -Week 4

Learning Activity Sheets (LAS) No. 4

Name of Learner:_______________________________________________________
Grade and Section:__________________________________ Date: ______________

TLE 9 - AFA (AGRICULTURAQL CROP PRODUCTION) ACTIVITY SHEET

Undertake horticultural production work as desired

I. LEARNING COMPETENCY WITH CODE: TLE_AFAC9HC-IIa-e-3

LO 3. Handle materials and equipment

3.1. Store waste material in a designated area according to workplace
procedure/OHS procedure.

II. Background Information for Learners:

An agricultural storing and stockpiling of materials cover different materials needed in
the farm especially handling materials and equipment.

Farm operation stocks that can be stored in the nursery:

1. Tools
2. Implements
3. Equipment
4. Potting medium
5. Containers/earthen pots
6. planting materials
7. Fertilizers

The supply of these materials must be sufficient for the nursery to become operational:

TOOLS:
1. Bolo - is used for cutting of grasses and weeds, loosening and pulverizing the soil, digging
small holes for planting and constructing posts, and breaking the topsoil in preparing
garden plots if no other tools are available.
2. Crowbar - is used for digging holes for posts and for digging out big stones and stumps.
3. Pick-mattock - is used for digging small canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up
stones and tree stumps.
4. Grab-hoe - is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
5. Spade - is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
6. Shovel - is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another
and for mixing soil media.
7. Rake - is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
8. Spading fork - is used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.
9. Light hoe - is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting.
10. Hand trowel - is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small
amount of manure in the soil.
11. Hand - cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing
young weeds around the plant.
12. Hand fork - is for inter row cultivation.
13. Pruning shears - is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of
plants.
14. Axe - is for cutting bigger sized wood for post .
15. Knife - is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in the nursery.
16. Post-hole digger - is used for digging small holes specifically for post.
17. Sledge hammer - is used in breaking rocks, driving posts or stakes, nudging a heavy timber
into place, driving large spikes

IMPLEMENTS:
1. Plows - These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a
working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large areas, making
furrows and inters row cultivation.
Plows pulled by working animals are made of either a combination of metal or wood or
pure metal. They are used to till areas with a shallower depth than that of the
disc plows which are pulled by tractors.
2. Harrow - The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal tooth and pulled by a
carabao while the disc harrow is a metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for
tilling and pulverizing the soil.
3. Rotavator - The rotavator is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling
and pulverizing the soil.

EQUIPMENT:
1. Hand tractors - are used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land. They are
also used to draw trailers to transport materials, inputs and harvests. It is now referred
to as the farmer‘s main drawing equipment, although in some places carabao is still
used .
2. Four wheel tractor - is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow and other farm implements in
preparing much bigger area of land. It is also used to draw trailers in transporting bigger
bulk of materials, inputs and harvests.
3. Water pumps - are used to draw irrigation water from a source. It made crop production
possible in areas without irrigation system.
3. Sprayers - are used to apply chemicals to control pests. Although the knapsack sprayer is still
used for easy handling, the power sprayer is being used for faster and more
convenient chemical applications.
4. Rice seeder - used to directly plant seeds of rice in dry soil method .
5. Corn thresher - used to thresh harvested mature corn.
8. Rice thresher - used to thresh harvested rice.
9. Mechanical grain drier - used to dry harvested grains to attain desirable moisture content to
prevent spoilage .
POTTING MEDIUM:
a. Soil-This is a very common easily available and cheaper medium used in the nursery. It
contains both organic and inorganic matter. The organic part is the residues of living and
dead parts of plants, animals and microbes. The liquid part of the soil is the solution
containing water, dissolved minerals as well as oxygen.
b. Sand- It is the result of weathering effect on parent rocks. The usual size of sand is from 0.05
to 2.0 mm. Sand is generally used in plant propagation media. The sand used in
plastering is very much suitable for rooting of cuttings.
c. Peat- This consists of the residues from a marsh swamp. Vegetative peat moss is available but
should be broken into fine parts before use in 133 mixtures or as media. It contains
some organic nitrogen and is favorable for newly rooted cuttings.
d. Sphagnum Moss- It is the dehydrated remains of acid hog plants and has three genera,
growing naturally in damp humid forest lands. It is relatively sterile, light in weight and
has a very high water holding capacity. Normally, it absorbs and holds water 20 times to
its weight.
e. Vermiculite- This is the micaceous or crumb mineral which expands significantly when
heated. Chemically it is hydrated magnesium, aluminum, iron, silicate. When expanded it
is very light in weight. It is neutral in reaction and has good buffering properties. It is insoluble
in water. Vermiculite is available in 4 Grades, one of which is the Horticultural Grade No.
2 which should be used for rooting and No. 4 for seed germination.
f. Perlite- This is gray white material having volcanic origin. It is neutral. It has no buffering
reaction and it contains no mineral nutrients.
g. Leaf Mold- It is prepared by using fallen leaves of various tree species available locally,
example Ficus, Ipil-ipil, Madre de cacao etc. it is prepared by stacking a few layers of
leaves then covering them with a thin layer of oil and cow or chicken dung. Some live
culture of decomposing organisms such as bokashi is added to hasten the process of
decomposition. The medium is ready or use after about 12 to 18 months of
decomposition.
h. Saw Dust- It is a by product or waste material from saw mills. The quantity and quality
depend on the parent wood material. Why this so? Because some wood shavings
contain raisin that is not good use as rooting media.
i. Grain Husk-Several type of husks are available, paddy husk is one of the important wastage
from rice mills. It is light in weight and cheaply available. It is suitable for mixing
with other types of media.
j. Coco Peat - Coco peat, cow dung are also used as media. A mixture of few media is always
preferred and used in commercial nurseries. Many times soil is one of the main
parts for mixtures. Media must be selected on the basis of the availability, cost, ease in
handling The media should be procured and stored.

CONTAINERS/EARTHEN POTS:
1. Black polyethylene bags
2. Plastic pots
3. Trays (undivided or with built in cells). These containers come in different sizes used in the
different stages of plant age. As plant grows it needs re-potting. This is done in order to
maintain its good appearance.

PLANTING MATERIALS:
1. Seeds
 2. Seedlings
3. Cuttings and other asexual plant propagation material

FERTILIZERS:
1. Organic fertilizer - are decayed and organic materials added to the soil to enhance plant
growth.
2. Inorganic fertilizer - known as chemical fertilizer available in agricultural stores that contains
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium to make the plants grow better.

Preparing stock control procedure:

Example:
Date Purchase: October 15, 2020

MATERIALS NO. OF STOCKS STOCKS USED REMAINING STOCKS

1. Plastic pots 1,000 pieces 500 pieces ? _____ (500 pieces)
(size 10)
2. Trays 150 pieces ? ______ (80 pieces) 70 pieces
(undivided)
3. Sphagnum ? ____ (10 sacks) 8 sacks 2 sacks
moss (30k/s)

III. Accompanying DepEd Textbook and Educational Sites

K-12 Agricultural Crop Production Learning Module for Grade 9

Asuncion, Jr. Ramon G. et.al.; Technology and Home Economics 2:
Agricultural Arts: First Edition: Abiva Publishing House, Inc: Quezon City. 1992

Department of Educatioin (2015) K-12 Basic Education Curriculum, Agricultural Crop

Production Learning Module for Grade 9

IV. Activity Proper

1. Directions / Instructions
a. Learners must follow the instructions given on what to do with the activities.
b. Instruction is a part of the activities to come up the correct answer.
c. Rubric is given to have a clear understanding and information in scoring.
d. Answer the guide questions accordingly.
e. References is given for additional information about the topic.
Department of Educatioin (2015) K-12 Basic Education Curriculum, Agricultural Crop
Production Learning Module for Grade 9, page 41-43

2. Exercises / Activities
Activity 1.1. Fill in the table with the corresponding data.

TOOL/S IMPLEMENT/S EQUIPMENT POTTING EARTHEN PLANTING FERTILIZER

MEDIUM POTS MATERIALS
1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2.
 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3.

Activity 1.2. Answer the blank materials and stocks.

MATERIALS NO. OF STOCKS STOCKS USED REMAINING STOCKS

Seedlings 800 pieces 350 pieces ? _____ pieces
Trays 275 pieces ? ______ pieces 75 pieces
Saw dust ? ____ sacks 16 sacks 5 sacks

Answer the following questions:

1. How can you get the remaining stocks?
2. How can you compute to come up the stocks used?
3. What mathematical operation did you use to answer the no. of stocks?

3. Guide Questions

I. Identification: Direction:
Choose the letter of the best answer. You may use an answer sheet.
1. This is a very common easily available and cheaper medium used in
the nursery. (A. Sand B. Soil C. Sphagnum moss)
2. It is the dehydrated remains of acid hog plants and
has three genera, growing naturally in damp humid forest lands.
(A. Sand B. Soil C. Sphagnum moss)
3. It is prepared by using fallen leaves of various tree species available
locally, eg Ficus, Ipil-ipil, Madre de cacao etc. it is prepared by
stacking a few layers of leaves then covering them with a thin
layer of soil and cow or chicken dung.
( A. Leaf mold B. Saw dust C. Coco peat)
4. It is a by product or waste material from saw mills. The quantity
and quality depend on the parent wood material.
( A. Leaf mold B. Saw dust C. Coco peat)
5. Coco peat, cow dung are also used as media. A mixture of few media is
always preferred and used in commercial nurseries.
( A. Leaf mold B. Saw dust C. Coco peat)
6. Is used for cutting of grasses and weeds
(A. Bolo B. Grab-hoe C. Spade)
7. Used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
(A. Bolo B. Grab-hoe C. Spade)
8. Is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
(A. Bolo B. Grab-hoe C. Spade)
9. Is used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.
(A. Spading fork B. Hand trowel C. Shovel)
10. Is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another
and for mixing soil media. (A.Spading fork B. Hand trowel C.
Shovel)
 11. Is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small
amount of manure in the soil. (A.Spading fork B. Hand trowel C.
Shovel)
12. These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a
working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large
areas, making furrows and inters row cultivation.
(A. Rotavator B. Plow C. Harrow)
13. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal tooth and pulled by a
carabao while the disc harrow is a metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used
for pulverizing the soil. (A. Rotavator B. Plow C. Harrow)
14. Is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
(A. Rotavator B. Plow C. Harrow)
15. Used to draw water from the water source.
(A. Hand tractor B. Four wheel tractor C. Water pump)

II. Fill in the missing data.

Date Purchase: October 20, 2020

MATERIALS NO. OF STOCKS STOCKS USED REMAINING STOCKS
1. Seedlings 975 pieces 700 pieces 1. ? _____ pieces
2. Trays 135 pieces 2. ? ______ pieces 70 pieces
3.Coco peat 3. ? ____ sacks 22 sacks 5 sacks
4.Sand 45 sacks 4.? ______ sacks 5 sacks
4. Seeds 1500 pieces 500 pieces 5._____ pieces

4. Rubric for Scoring

Activity 1.1.

Response Criteria Score

Outstanding Draw a table correctly 3

Complete all the columns and rows
All answers are correct
Very Draw a table correctly 2
satisfactory Complete all the columns and rows
Answers all with 1 incorrect answer
Nearly Draw a table correctly 1
satisfactory Incomplete columns and rows
More than two incorrect answer

Activity 1.2

Response Criteria Score

Outstanding Draw a table correctly 3

Complete all the columns and rows
Compute the answers accurately
 Very Draw a table correctly 2
satisfactory Complete all the columns and rows
Compute the answers with 1 incorrect answer
Nearly Draw a table correctly 1
satisfactory Incomplete columns and rows
Compute the answers with two or more incorrect
answers

V. Reflection:

Why did farmers use fertilizer for their farm crops?

What will happen to the table of every family if there is no farmer working in the farm
to provide food.

VI. Answer Key

A. Activity 1.1

TOOL/S IMPLEMENT/S EQUIPMENT POTTING EARTHEN PLANTING FERTILIZER

MEDIUM POTS MATERIALS
B Plow Hand tractor Coco peat tray seeds Organic
olo
S Harrow Four wheel sand container seedlings Inorganic
pad tractor
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S Rotavator Water pump Saw dust Plastic pot cuttings
hov
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MATERIALS NO. OF STOCKS STOCKS USED REMAINING STOCKS

Seedlings 800 pieces 350 pieces ? 450 pieces
Trays 275 pieces ?200 pieces 75 pieces
Saw dust ? 21 sacks 16 sacks 5 sacks
1, 2., 3. answer may vary

POST TEST:
I. Identification II. Fill in the blank
1. B 1. 275 pieces
2. C 2. 65 pieces
3. A 3. 27 sacks
4. B 4. 40 sacks
5. C 5. 1000 pieces
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. C
11. B