TECHNOLOGY AND LIVELIHOOD

EDUCATION (TLE)
QUARTER 1 – MODULE 4
• Systematic and Scientific Ways of Caring Seedlings,
Orchard Trees, and Fruit Trees
• Marketing Fruits/Seedlings and Plan for Future
Expansion of Planting Trees and Seedling Production

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Most Essential Learning Competencies:
a. Performs systematic and scientific ways of caring orchard trees/seedlings such as
watering, cultivating, preparing and applying organic fertilizer.
• K to 12 BEC CG: TLE6AG-0e-6
b. Markets fruits and seedlings
• K to 12 BEC CG: TLE6A-of-7
c. Develops plan for expansion of planting trees and seedling production
• K to 12 BEC CG: TLEAG-0g-8

I. INTRODUCTION:

Trees and seedlings in an orchard must get proper care to make them grow healthy.
Proper care of trees and seedlings needs proper care of soil too. This include the application
of fertilizer, watering and cultivating.
After several years, the fruit trees you have planted have grown and started to bear
fruits. Now is the time to reap the energy, money and love that you have invested in your fruit
trees. To get most profit, it is important how and when to harvest and market these products.

II. DISCUSSION:

Ways of Watering Plants

Plants need water to grow! Plants are about 80-95% water and need water for
multiple reasons as they grow including for photosynthesis, for cooling, and to transport
minerals and nutrients from the soil and into the plant.

There are three ways:

1. Natural- this is the natural way of providing water for plants

through the rain.

2. Manual - This is with the use of a water pail and dipper or

water sprinkler.

3. Artificial- Water supply is artificially produced from a deep-

well, dams, and river with the help of motors.

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Different Methods of Artificial Watering:

a. Surface or furrow irrigation-water is distributed in

each row.

b. Sprinkler Irrigation-line, rotating and micro sprinkles

in which artificial rain is generated.

c. Drip or trickle irrigation-water source designed to

discharge water closes to the plant.

d. Sub-irrigation-water source is under the ground.

Proper Ways of Cultivating

Cultivating the soil is actually a combination of two things, removing weeds from the garden
and loosening the soil to improve the retention and penetration of air, water and nutrients.

There are two ways:

1.Off-barring- is plowing or cultivating in a way that the soil is

drawn away from the plants, usually in between the furrows
for the purpose of killing the weeds.

2. Hilling up - a kind of cultivation by bringing the soil towards

the base of the plant to cover fertilizer and control weeds.

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 Fertilizer

A fertilizer is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues
to supply plant nutrients.

There are two kinds of fertlilizer:

Organic Fertilizer or Natural Organics

1. are fertilizers derived from animal matter, animal excreta
(manure), human excreta, and vegetable matter.

2. Inorganic Fertilizer or Commercial fertilizers

are the plant nutrients of crude chemical compounds presented
in a concentrated and valuable form.

Safety Tips in Preparing ang Applying Fertilizer

1. Store fertilizer in a safe place away from children and pets. If you keep your lawn and
gardening supplies in a shed, keep it locked. If you store your fertilizer in your garage, make
sure it’s kept in a locked cabinet or on a shelf children can’t reach.
2. Wear gloves. Fertilizer contains nitrogen that can cause a chemical burn on your skin.
3. Wear eye protection. It’s always important to wear glasses or goggles when working in your
yard.
4. Clean up excess fertilizer on your sidewalk, patio, or driveway. This makes for a safer
environment for young children and pets. It also prevents the rain from washing it into your
local water system.

Benefits of Using Fertilizer

By providing nutrients like nitrogen, fertilizers help plants thrive despite the threat of
weeds and disease. Organic fertilizers, like manure, improve the fertility of soil by feeding
microorganisms in the soil, reducing erosion and keeping soil well hydrated.

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 Marketing Fruits and Seedlings

In selling fruits and seedlings, you need to make sure of the marketability of your products.
Selling good quality seedlings and fruits gain more customers.

Once your products have undertaken quality control inspection and considered marketable
you may start promoting them.

Systems of Marketing Farm Products:

1. Selling through wholesaler or middleman

This practice is termed in the vernacular as “pakyawan”. This system is common when the
area of production is far from the point of consumption.

2. Direct Selling to Consumers

The farmers bring their products directly to the consumers through the local market. In this
system, the farmers produce, transport and sell their products by themselves and get all the
profits from their crops.

3. Marketing through cooperative

The farmers pool their products and form a cooperative. All members share their services and
divide the profits equally; the farmers have sure market and enough profit.

Marketing Strategies using modern technologies are other options for the producers.
They can resort to any of the following:

1. Internet or online marketing- this type of marketing uses

the Internet, web, and email; products are introduced online.

2. Social Media Marketing- Makes use of social networking

sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Youtube by sending
message, advertising, and marketing.

3. Flyers or brochures- are forms of advertisement to

reach a bigger base of customers. These are printed materials
distributed in malls, markets and places where people are.
These printed leaflets advertise products, houses, recreational
centers, etc.

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 Plan for Expansion of Planting Trees and Seedling Production

TIPS FOR FUTURE EXPANSION:

1. Provide surveys in the community to gather the locality’s needs.

2. Build relationship to the people within the community like stakeholders, the local
government unit, schools, and private sectors.
3. Demand of fruits dictates the rate of sales. Increase of sales shows a healthy market
status.
4. Open opportunity for investment and franchising.
5. Availability of experience/skilled orchard workers in the community.

Effects of expansion of orchard business in the community

1. Provides opportunity to the community to have work.

2. Helps the community environment.
3. Gives the community to have fresh harvest fruits available in the market.
4. Taxes from the orchard business serve as local government funds.

III. EXERCISES:
I. Direction: Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false.
______1. Store fertilizer in a safe place away from children and pets.
______2. Pakyawan is selling through wholesaler or middleman.
______3. Quality control is being done after selling the products.
______4. Cultivating soil helps root growth and better absorption of nutrients from the soil.
______5. Taxes from the orchard business serve as local government funds.

II. Direction: Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. Choose your answer inside the
box.

Inorganic fertilizer Natural

Flyers or brochures Hilling-up
Internet/Online Marketing

1. __________is a kind of cultivation by bringing the soil towards the base of the plant to
cover fertilizer and control weeds.
2. __________is a type of marketing uses the Internet, web, and email; products are
introduced online.
3. __________ are the plant nutrients of crude chemical compounds presented in a
concentrated and valuable form.
4. _____________ is the way of providing water for plants through the rain.
5. ________ this are printed materials distributed in malls, markets and places where people
are.

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IV. PERFORMANCE TASK:
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. Natural fertilizer from decayed matter, animals, and other natural sources.
A. inorganic B. organic C. semi-organic D. left-over
2. A water supply that is produced from a deep-well, dams, and river with the help of motors.
A. artificial B. natural C. manual D. semi-artificial
3. The fastest way to market orchard trees/seedlings nowadays.
A. online marketing B. marketing C. local marketing D. foreign marketing
4. _________ wear complete personal protective equipment which includes hairnet,
hand gloves, apron, boots if needed, protective eyeglass, and face mask.
A. Don’t B. Never C. Always D. Sometimes
5. _________ to stakeholders of the community, the local government unit, schools,
and private sectors who runs related business.
A. Be wise C. Be industrious
B. Be patient D. Build relationship
6. The farmers bring their products directly to the consumers through the local market is
called _______.
A. Selling through wholesaler C. Marketing through Cooperative
B. Direct selling D. Pakyawan

7._____is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues
to supply plant nutrients.
A. water C. pesticide
B. Minerals D. Fertilizer
8. ____________ is an artificial method of water supply wherein water source is under
the ground.
A. Furrow Irrigation C. Drip Irrigation
B. Sprinkler Irrigation D. Sub-Irrigation
9. ________ makes use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube
by sending message, advertising, and marketing.
A. Online Marketing C. Flyers/Brochures
B. Social Media marketing D.TV broadcasting
10. ___________helps you to gather information on what the locality’s needs.
A. Survey C. facebook
B. Meetings D. Networking

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V. ANSWER KEY:

EXERCISES
Easy: Average:
1. T 1. Hilling-up
2. T 2. Internet/Online Marketing
3. F 3. Inorganic fertilizer
4. T 4. Natural
5. T 5. Flyers or brochures

PERFOMANCE TASK
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. B
7. D
8. D
9. B