REVIEWER IN ACP NCII

PERFORM NURSERY OPERATION

1. What are the common nursery tools and their specific uses?
Answer: Digging Tools – Spade, Hoe, Spading Fork, Pick Mattock
Propagation Tools – Pruning Shear, Pole Cutter, Budding Knife,
Grafting Knife
Other Tools – Trowel, Wheel Barrow, Dibble, Bolo, Scissors
2. What are the factors to be considered in site selection for the nursery shed?
Answer: Flat Area
Good drainage
Near source of water
Accessible to transport
Near to the production area
3. What are some of the materials needed in setting-up nursery shed?
Answer: Support post
Fish Net
Plastic sheet
Coconut leaves
Wooden/Bamboo benches
String/Wire
4. What are the characteristics of food quality seeds?
Answer: Free from pest, diseases and other damages
High viability
Free from mixtures

5. Give at least two techniques in breaking seed dormancy?

Answer: Scarification
Soaking in water
Hot water treatment
Acid treatment

6. What are the importance of germination test?

Answer: To determine the viability of the seed
To determine the amount of seed needed for planting

7. Out of 100 seeds only 65 germinated. What is the percentage germination?

Answer: 65 percent

8. Cite at least three components of growing medium

Answer: Garden soil
Peat moss
Saw dust
Rice hull/carbonized rice hull
Compost
River sand

9. Give at least two characteristics of good growing medium

Answer: Good Aeration
Good water supply
Good drainage
Can supply nutrient
10. Give at least two advantages of asexual propagation 1
Answer: Produce true-to-type plant
Shortened bearing age
Propagate plants that do not produce viable seed
Propagate diseases-free plant
Improve aesthetic value of ornamental plants

PLANT CROPS

1. Give at least three basic tools and equipment for land preparation?
Answer: Plow, Harrow, Bolo, Spade, Garden hoe, Rake

2. What will you do after collecting soil sample for analysis?

Answer: Air-drying
Pulverizing
Packing
Labelling

3. Give at least two planting systems

Answer: Give at least two planting systems
Quincunx or diagonal
Hexagonal or triangular
Rectangular

4. Enumerate the activities inland preparation

Answer: Cleaning
Plowing
Harrowing/levelling
Furrowing
Lay-Outing
Digging of holes

5. Cite at least three benefits of preparing the field before planting

Answer: Gives the soil a fine tilth to increase nutrient absorption
Control
Increase soil porosity and aerate the soil
Incorporate crop residues and other inputs (e.g fertilizer)
Mixes the soil to bring up leached dposits
Levels the field
Prepares the soil for subsequent farm operations

6. Give at least two forms of tillage operations

Answer: Conventional
Conservation
Minimum
Zero

7. Why do you apply basal fertilizer?

Answer: to supply the initial nutrient needed by the plants

8. Give recommended rate of 60 grams/tree as basal fertilizer, compute the total

amount of fertilizer5 100 trees.
Answer: 60 grams X 100 = 6000 grams or 6 kilos
9. What are materials needed in field by-outing?
Answer: Planting plant, Measuring tape, String, Stakes 2
10. Give at least 5 crops that are direct seeded
Answer: Okra, Pole sitao, Corn, Ampalaya, Radish, Carrots, Peanut, Soybean,
Mugbean, Upo, Patola, Squash, Cucumber, etc.

11. Give at least 5 crops that are transplanted

Answer: Tomato, Eggplant, Pepper, Lettuce, Rice, Coffee, Cacao, Coconut,
Santol, Mango, Black pepper, Ornamentals, etc.

CARE AND MAINTAIN CROP

1. What are the major types of pest causing yield losses in crop production?
Answer: Insects, Disease, Weeds.

2. Identify three major insect pest in rice.

Answer: Rice – Planthopper, Black Bug, Rice Stemborer (mealy bug, rice bug,
grasshopper, snail, etc.)

3. Identify three major insect pest in corn.

Answer: Corn borer, Corn earworm, Aphids (Mites, Stink bug)

4. Identify three major insect pest in fruit tress/plantation crops

Answer: Mango – Fruitfly, twig borer, shoot borer, (scale insect, mealybug,
others)
Cacao – Mired bug, Cacao pod borer, Mealybug (Aphids, scale
insect)
Coffee – Twig borer, Weevil, Berry borer, (Aphids, scale insect)
Coconut – Coconut scale insect, Brontispa, Rhinoceros beetle
(coconut leaf beetles, mite, mealy bug)

5. Identify three major insect pests in vegetables

Answer: Diamond back moth, fruit worm, cut worm (whitefly, aphids, mites,
shoot, borer, leafhoppers)

6. Identify three major specimen, is it harmful or beneficial/friendly insect? In

which crop you will find this insect?
Answer: Scale insect, moth (leafhoppers, aphids)

7. Based on the actual specimen, is it harmful or beneficial/friendly insect?

Answer: Yes or No (depends on the provided)

8. What are the different pest control measures? Explain one measures.
Answer: Mechanical, Physical, Sanitation, Bio-control, Cultural, Chemical

9. What is your understanding of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?

Answer: IPM refers to sustainable approach to managing pests by combining
biological, physical and chemical tools in a way that
minimizes economics, health, and environmental risks (National IPM
Network)

10. Collect weeds and identify classes where they belong

Answer: Grasses, Sedges broad leaves

11. What is the importance of weed control?

Answer: To prevent co mpetition for nutrients, water and sunlight
12. When is the right schedule for weeding? 3
Answer: Early vegetative stage of the crop and as the need arise (all crops)

13. Determine different kinds of fertilizer based on the samples presented.

Answer: Determine different kinds of fertilizer based on the samples
presented.

14. Determine the nitrogen level in the following materials:

Answer: Urea (46%)
Complete (14%)
Ammonium Phosphate (16%)
Compost (Based on the Material)

15. Enumerate methods of fertilizer application. Demonstrate one application.

Answer: Broadcast, Sidedress, Basal, Topdress, Localized, Foliar spray

16. What are the importance of pruning?

Answer: Growth orientation
Removal of infected plant parts
Ease of maintenance and harvesting
Flower induction
Increase light penetration for growth and pest control
Increase production

17. What method/s of pruning is applicable to a particular crop

Answer: Topping – Vegetables, Ornamentals, Plantation crops
Pinching – Vegetables and Ornamentals
Top Pruning – Fruit trees
Deleafing – Vegetables and Ornamentals

18. Explain the importance of hilling-up and off-barring.

Answer: Aeration, Control of soil boring insect pests and weeds

19. What are the different methods of watering crops? What method is applicable
to a particular crop?
Answer: Drip – Plantation, ornamentals, vegetables, fruit
Furrow – corn, banana, coffee, cacao
Sprinkler – ornamentals, vegetables
Flooding – rice

20. What is the importance of cultivation after planting?

Answer: Aeration, weed control

21. What particular crop need cultivation after planting?

Answer: fruit trees, vegetables, ornamentals, cereals

22. Is it possible to rejuvenate old Plants? What is the importance of

rejuvenation?
Answer: Yes.
To improve/increase the productivity of the crop
To maintain desired height
To remove diseased plant parts

23. In what crops rejuvenation is applicable? 4

Answer: Fruit and selected vegetables and ornamentals

24. What are the different plant rejuvenation techniques?

Answer: Side grafting, Cutting of unproductive branches, rationing

25. Demonstration rejuvenating techniques of your choices.

Answer: Side grafting, grafting – Insertion Scion
Rationing – cutting old branches (eggplant, okra, sorghum, etc.)
Side pruning – removal of one side of the tree (coffee, cacao)
Bending – bending of stem (coffee, cacao)

26. What is the importance of growth training?

Answer: control shading, increase production, and improve aesthetic value
in selected ornamentals

27. In what crops is growth training applicable?

Answer: vine crops, selected ornamentals, fruit trees and plantation crops.

28. What are the benefits of mulching?

Answer: conserve moisture, minimize erosion, suppress weed growth, insect
control, provide additional soil nutrient.

29. Enumerate the different mulching materials.

Answer: rice hull and straw, coconut leaves and husks, dried leaves, plastic
mulch, sawdust.

30. How to you discard and store hazardous materials and chemicals?
Answer: Discard hazardous materials by burying
Store hazardous materials in specific location
Follow all OSHS procedures

31. Identify at least three Good Agricultural Practice

Answer: food safety, prevent cross contamination, practice field sanitation
and personal hygiene, clean workplace/ surrounding

CARRY-OUT AND POST HARVEST OPERATIONS

1. What are the types of maturity indices?

Answer: a. Physiological Indices
b. Physical Indices

2. What are the maturity indices for physiological indices?

Answer: a. Days after flower induction
b. Days after fruit setting

3. What are the maturity indices for Physical related factors?

Answer: a. Change in color
b. Change in size
c. Change in texture

4. What are the items you are going to record related to crop to be harvested? 5
Answer: a. variety of crop
b. sources of seed and planting materials
 c. planting calendar and calendar

5. What are the common obstruction before harvesting?

Answer: a. weeds
b. dead branches
c. left-out stakes and wedges

6. How do you call distinguish between materials, tools equipment?

Answer: tools are manual and hand-operated gadgets while equipment are
normally driven with small engines or motors; materials are common
supplies to carry out activity

7. What pesticide do you use to control mites?

Answer: Use of miticide

8. What are the examples of postharvest facilities for harvested mango?

Answer: a. hot-water treatment
b. vapour heat treatment

9. How do you perform hot-water treatment?

Answer: Dip harvested produces especially mango in hot water with
temperature 50 ̊ - 55 ̊C for 3-5 minutes

10. What is pre-cooling process for vegetation?

Answer: the process of lowering the vegetation temperature to slow down
deterioration and extend shelf life.

11. Are all insect pest?

Answer: No. Some are beneficial.

12. What are the industry-required quality indicator for fruit?

Answer: a. size
b. weight
c. appearance

13. Are there crops that needs primary processing and storage before
marketing?
Answer: Yes. Mostly planting crops

14. Identify at least three Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)

Answer: a. Practice personal hygiene
b. Observe proper handling of tools and equipment
c. Avoid cross-contamination of materials and practices

15. How will you demonstrate the proper handling of tools and equipment?
Answer: Read and follow operational manual

16. What are the different stages in ripeness according to BAFPS standards for
carabao mango? 6
Answer: a. Green
b. Breaker
c. Turning
 d. Semi-ripe
e. Ripe
F. Over-ripe

17. What are the common mechanical types of fruit damage?

/Answer: a. Bruising
b. Wounding
c. Abrasion

18. How do you avoid damages? (follow-up, demonstration)

Answer: Use crate liners

19. Why do you need labeling for harvested agricultural crops?

Answer: because of the industry demand to trace the origin and destination

20. What are the common storage pest?

Answer: a. insects
b. rodents
c. fungi
d. bacteria
e. mites

21. Identify the storage pest based on actual specimen? (show the student at
least two pest specimen)
Answer: (name of the pest)

22. What entries should be entered in the insect pest logbook?

Answer: date observed, location, pest ID

23. Why do you need to identify insect and pest in storage?

Answer: related to control measures, economic value, food safety,
quarantine requirements.

24. What should be reported immediately to supervisors and

superiors/authorities?
Answer: Matters needing immediate decisions.
Example: Accident, unforeseen breakdown of tools, equipment.

25. are all farm waste biodegradable? Why?

Answer: No. Example are black plastic bags/container, pesticides container
and empty sacks.

26. How then you dispose them properly? (follow-up)

Answer: Segregate non-biodegradable and hazardous materials and dispose
to collecting authority

27. How to you identify hazardous materials?

Answer: Reading the warning labels. 7

28. Identify the importance of user’s manual for tools and equipment
Answer: a. the manual contains usage and safety procedures
b. shows require maintenance procedure
29. What PPE should you wear when working around the farm house?
Answer: a. over-all clothing
b. safety gloves
c. farm shoes

30. What is quarantine?

Answer: control of transportation pest disease that may be present in plants
and plants materials