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ON-THE-JOB TRAINING (OJT)

TERMINAL REPORT

TITLE PAGE

SAHARA LAUREANNE G. GALLEGO

Submitted to the Faculty of Information Technology Department

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Caraga State University

In partial fulfilment

of the requirements for the Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering (BSAE)

AUGUST 2018
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ACKNOWLEGEMENT

First and Foremost, I would like to thank God for his infinite love

and guidance throughout our training. For giving us strength and good

health so we have completed our 360 training hours, and also for

providing us knowledge and wisdom that beyond compare.

To the CEO-President of VPO Rosario Agro-Industrial

Development Corporation, Engr. Vivencio P. Ocite Jr. for allowing us to

conduct our on-the-job training inside his premises.

To Mr. Mario Gacang, Cacao Specialist of VPO-RAIDC, for sharing

his knowledge and expertise on cacao plant, for teaching us different

activities in line with cacao and also for guiding us all throughout our

training in the agro-forest department

To Engr. Jerry Palingcod, Head Supervisor/Field manager of the

Corn Plantation of VPO-RAIDC, for guiding and teaching us on how

they handle their corn on pre and post-harvest, also for providing our

needs during the preparation of the VPO-Efficacy test.

To Ma’am Zabbrina, consultant of Livestock Department

consultant, for allowing us to enter on the livestock department.

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To Engr. Jonathan Domingo, Supervisor of their ongoing building

for piggery and pellet mill, for accompanying us during the floor-plan

lay-outing if the different farm structure building inside the farm.

To our colleagues in the different area who gave us inspirations

in order to strive and pursue our training and helps us to get through

and share their ideas during training hours.

And lastly, to my beloved mother and family who give the best,

for the hardships to educate us and who made each day worthwhile.

Thank You and God Bless!

~ Sahara
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DEDICATION

This On-Job-Training, the trainee is wholeheartedly

dedicate her accomplishment and success to all the staff and

supervisors of VPO-Agro-Industrial Development Corporation, for

teaching the trainee and for sharing their field of expertise in relation

to the agricultural and engineering works.

To her co-trainees JM, May2, ate Keith and ate Abs who were

always there and became part of her OJT day’s journey through

hardship and comfort. To all AE faculty member who guide and make

the trainee to be an effective engineer in the future.

To her family for always there supporting him by providing her

needs and most especially to the Almighty God for providing her

strength despite of all the hardships, for the wisdom and good health

for completing the task in her OJT days.

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APPROVAL SHEET

A Terminal Report of the ON-THE-JOB TRAINING at VPO-

Rosario Agro-Industrial Development Corporation prepared and

submitted by SAHARA LAUREANNE G. GALLEGO, in partial fulfilment of

requirements for the Degree BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING (BSAE) is hereby recommended for

acceptance.

ENGR. LORIE CRIS S. ASUBE

Chairman, ES Department

______________________

Date Signed

Accepted as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree

of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING.

ENGR. MERIAM MAKINANO-SANTILLAN

DEAN, CEIT

______________________

Date Signed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE .................................................................................. i

ACKNOWLEGEMENT ...................................................................... ii

DEDICATION .............................................................................. iv

APPROVAL SHEET ......................................................................... v

LIST OF FIGURE ........................................................................ viii

1. COMPANY PROFILE .................................................................. 1

1.1 History of the Company ...................................................... 1

1.2 Company Objectives ........................................................... 2

1.3 Nature of the Business and Product ...................................... 3

1.4 Organizational Structure ..................................................... 3

1.5 Financial Status of the Company .......................................... 4

1.6 Trainee’s Area of concern .................................................... 5

2. INDUSTRY PROFILE ................................................................. 7

2.1 Industry Background .......................................................... 7

3. TRAINIG MANAGEMENT ........................................................... 8

3.1 Introduction ...................................................................... 8

3.2 Narration of Experience ...................................................... 9

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3.3 Problems encountered and proposed .................................. 16

3.3.1 Technical ................................................................... 16

3.3.2 Administrative ............................................................ 16

3.4 Conclusions ..................................................................... 17

3.5 Recommendations ............................................................ 18

4. APPENDIX ............................................................................ 20

4.1 Certificate of Completion ................................................... 20

4.2 Evaluation Sheet .............................................................. 20

4.3 Student pledge ................................................................ 20

4.4 Pictures with caption ........................................................ 21

4.5 DTR................................................................................ 27

4.6 Approved/Signed Documents ............................................. 27

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LIST OF FIGURE

Figure 1. Organizational Structure .................................................. 4

Figure 2. The trainees in the nursery arranging the

bags of cacao trees. ...................................................... 21

Figure 3. The trainees during their grafting activity ........................ 21

Figure 4. The trainees during their organic fertilizer

application on the cacao trees. ....................................... 22

Figure 5. The trainees during mixing and bagging activity ............... 22

Figure 6. The trainee on their mulching activity .............................. 23

Figure 7. The trainee during their tour at the Kisom ....................... 23

Figure 8. The picture of their solar dryer ....................................... 24

Figure 9. The picture of the solar dried cacao beans ....................... 24

Figure 10. The trainee during their insect collecting activity ............. 24

Figure 11. The trainee during the lay-outing of the field

in the efficacy test ....................................................... 25

Figure 12. The trainees during the measurement gathering

and inventory on the layer buildings .............................. 25

Figure 13. The trainees during the measurement gathering

and inventory on the Feed Mill ...................................... 26

Figure 14. The trainees during the measurement gathering

and inventory on the hatchery building........................... 26

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Figure 15. The trainees during the measurement gathering

and inventory on the piggery buildings ........................... 26

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1. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1 History of the Company

Egr. Vivencio Patete Ocite Jr., graduated in Marawi State

University with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural

Engineering. Few years passed, after he finished his degree, he was

appointed as Board Director in Banahaw Mining Located in Bayugan 3,

Rosario, Agusan Del Sur.

In his 5 years in service, he created a small scale mining. He then

put up a Mini-processing plan of gold in Sta. Cruz, Rosario, Agusan del

Sur. Then, after 2 years, he started buying lands in Padigusan, Wasi-

an, Novele, Cabawan, Palibo, Tagbayagn and Cabantao, Rosario

Agusan del Sur. The VPO-RAIDC has a rice field area with 300 has.,

corn area with 500 has., and a rubber’s area with 600 has.

Later on, Engr. Ocite expanded his bussniss I Pioneer Avenue,

Tagum City called Goldsmith General Merchandise-dealer of

cellophane accessories, cell cards, smart load, auto load, e-press load

reloader. Goldsmith supplies weighing scale, table balance, espada,

foot pump, tank, binga, colon and others.

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After establishing his busyness in Tagum City, he then travelled

to Manila for another expansion. As go on roaming around, he decided

to put up condominium in Makati City which is functional already.

With regards to his equipment’s, he own six (6) dump trucks,

two (2) forwards, three (3) canters, three (3) farm tractors, four (4)

backhoe, one (1) bulldozer and five (5) 4x4 service.

Currently, he is still expanding his business around Caraga Region

and almost 1/4th of the land in Rosario, Agusan Del Sur is owned by

the VPO-RAIDC. He is also buying lands around Agusan Del Sur for the

expansion of his other plantation. Furthermore, VPO-RAIDC is now

engaging on Cacao, Sago, Coconut, Coffee, Kaong and Adlay

plantation which now supplying his production on tablea, sweeten

kaong, oganic coffee, sago starch, adlay rice, and organic sugar from

kaong and many more.

1.2 Company Objectives

Their objective is to produce high quality meats and agricultural

product using organic farming. Also, for the Caraga region to have

sufficient stock in terms of eggs, poultry and livestock meats.

They are also aiming to help their neighbor citizen by employing

them to their farm even though they are not properly educated.
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Furthermore, they give scholarship to those individual who wants to

have proper education.

1.3 Nature of the Business and Product

VPO-Rosario Agro-Industrial Development Corporation deals with

producing meats from their livestock and poultry farming and also with

their agricultural crops like corn, rice, adlay, cacao, sago, coconut,

rubber, oil palm, coffee, kaong and many more. Their harvested

product are process by the VPO Farms and sell from their various store

Sinubong, which can be located in different area in Caraga and now

expanding on its nearby region.

1.4 Organizational Structure

The organizational structure of the VPO-RAIDC was made to

determine the hierarchy and its individuals function.

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Engr. Vivencio P.
Dr. Ocite Ocite Jr.
CEO-President

Pampelo Dubluis Lerio Ocite

Legal Council Finance/Accounting Manager

Engr. Vivencio
Ocite III
Agro-Forest ad Mineral Sinubong Manager VPO Farm Manager
Processing manager

Figure 1. Organizational Structure

General Workers

Engr. Jerry Palingcod – Operation In-Charge and Head Supervisor of

Corn Plantation.

Mario Gacang – Cacao Specialist

Jackilyn G. Saday – Operation in-charge of RARBEMPCO and

coffee and coconut nursery

1.5 Financial Status of the Company

(Confidential)
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1.6 Trainee’s Area of concern

The concern area of the trainee’s is in the area that is related to

their program. Specifically, the trainee is concern more in the process

done in department and how it works.

In the farm, the trainees were undergone and being assigned in

three (3) different departments. The main tasks of the trainees in this

departments are the following:

 Agro-Forest Department – knapsack parts identification,

knapsack assembling and disassembling, mixing and

bagging, scion searching from the mother tree of the

cacao, wedging, grafting (propagating), inventory, cut test

of cacao beans to determine the difference each variety,

culling of empty sacks, height segregation, cacao pod

breaking, sorting, washing, applying organic fertilizer,

planting cacao, knapsack spraying, applying synthetic

fertilizer, pruning, insect collecting, harvesting, mulching,

tablea making. Those are activities related in cacao (from

planting to harvesting, also on their pest and diseases

management)

 Engineering department – corn harvesting, corn opening,

tour on their pre- and post-harvest equipment, lay-outing

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of the land for the efficacy test, preparing for the organic

and inorganic materials for the efficacy test, labeling.

 Livestock Department – lay-outing on their different farm

structures (Hatcher, Poultry, Piggery, Feed Mill, Layer),

inventory of the machines, observation on the lacking and

different procedure/handling of their different

products/process in each building, reporting and giving

some recommendation.
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2. INDUSTRY PROFILE

2.1 Industry Background

VPO- Rosario Agro-Industrial Development Corporation

Address: Mahayahay, Sta. Cruz, Rosario, Agusan Del Sur

VPO-RAIDC is owned by Engr. Vivencio P. Ocite Jr., an

Agricultural Engineer. VPO-RAIDC produce different agricultural

products like; meat form poultry and livestock, eggs, also organic

tablea, coffee, sago starch, adlay, sweeten kaong, kaong sugar

coconut wine and vinegar, chocolate from their cacao beans and many

more and sell them on their different branches of Sinubong.

They are using advance technology on their farms. Biogas is one

of their source of their electricity while water from some mountains in

Rosario are their source of water in the farms.

VPO-RAIDC has their own feed mill which they produce their own

feeds for their livestock and poultry foods. And currently VPO-RAIDC is

now planning to commercialize their organic soil fertilizer from the

waste of their farm. Also, they have their own processing plantation

that processed their organic harvested agricultural crops like cacao,

coffee beans, kaong, coconut wine and vinegar, sago, adlay and many

more.
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3. TRAINIG MANAGEMENT

3.1 Introduction

On the job Training is part of a college curriculum that aims to

train and orient students about the real work outside the school on

their chosen profession. OJT is very important not just only to teach

students about their chosen career but to show students the reality of

working. This is the most important part of a course, which the

student can measure the learning based on what they learn in

university or learn more about their specialization. It is also a way

where the students can explore and practice all the things that they

have learned and acquired their course. By OJT, students can

experience a little bit work or how the real Agricultural Engineering

works and Office works operates. It is very important for applying

jobs. Employers often asked about the OJT experience and how it is

related on the job that you are applying for. The OJT experience that

you have can land you a great job.

During their OJT at VPO Agro-Industrial Development

Corporation, the supervisors, workers and staff guide and taught the

trainees on how they will develop their skills in the different

department of the farm. They also let the trainees to experience

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various activities that can mold the trainees not just on their

intellectual capacity but also physical. Also, they taught the trainees

on how important the personality or attitude of an individual to deal

with the real life world, on how cruel the real work is when the time

comes. They showed to the practicums that they treat every one of

them as a family but the respect is still there. Furthermore, they not

just trained the trainee to do their required task but also trained on

how to act professionally.

3.2 Narration of Experience

Agro-Forest Department

(June 20, 2018-July 2, 2018 & July 19, 2018-July 24, 2018)

On our first day on the Agro-Forest Department, Mr. Mario

Cagang, a cacao specialist from VPO-RAIDC made some introduction

about himself. After that he conducted a pre-test which is all about the

cacao from its planting to harvesting up to pest and diseases

management and to tablea preparation, storing, and making.

On the afternoon, he test again our knowledge by letting us

assemble and disassemble knapsack sprayer with total minutes of 5

for girls and 4 for boys, also by identification of the knapsack sprayer

parts with just 15 minutes preparation. He is challenging our mind to

memorize the IPDM prayer and the 10 competencies with just 10

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minutes each. After the nerve breaking activity that day, he continue

to discuss about cacao.

The second day we are assigned to the nursery, which in there

whole day we do mixing and bagging under the heat of the sun.

The next day we do searching for scion (bud stick) and

experience wedging that if you are not taking care of your steps can

caused you harm. Also we memorize different steps in cleft grafting.

Next day is we individually graft 10 pcs of cacao with the scion

we found on the other day.

On our 6th day, we identify different cacao clone varieties

registered by NSIC (National Seed Industry Council) using cut test.

Also, we identify its individual characteristic. On the afternoon, we do

culling and height separation on the nursery.

The next morning we join the workers on their scheduled

activity, which is pod breaking. Afterwards we done beans sorting and

washing for preparation on the beans to plant.

As day past, we undergo different activities in line with cacao

during its planting to harvesting also on their pest and diseases

managements. We experience pruning, mulching, harvesting,

collecting of insect which can be found on the cacao tree and tablea

making, from fermentation, drying, roasting, molding up to storing.

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On the last day of our training in the agro-forest department, we

take up an 800 pts exam to measure our knowledge on the cacao.

On our everyday experience on the agro-forest department, we

face difference activities that challenges not just our mind but also our

physical strengths. Also, the staff of the Apat which is the area we

conduct our daily activities concerning on the cacao, we witness how

they value each other as family. Sometimes there are some conflict

because of the level of their rank or position but still they shows

respect with each other. And unintentionally, they taught us how

important the respect and attitude you shown to your co-worker.

Engineering Department

(July 3, 2018- July 18, 2018)

On our first day on the engineering department, we are gathered

ate VPO compound for small orientation on what will be doing for the

following days.

After that, we travelled almost 2 hours, from Mahayahan to

Palibo by what they call parmol (a tractor with an implement that they

used to collect their sacked corn). In the Palibo, Engr. Jerry Palingkod

the head supervisor of the corn plantation of VPO-RAIDS made some

introduction about his self and also he discuss to us what are the
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process they practicing and about on how they handle their corn from

land preparation up to drying.

The next day at the Palibo, Engr. Jerry let us experience on how

to harvest corn, to opening it 'til sacking. On our days on the Palibo,

we saw how the people welcoming strangers like us. They treat us like

they now us for years and also on our last day on the place. The

Renter of the land which we harvest corn, leaved as with 3 bunches of

banana as a gift.

The next day, Eng. Jerry toured us inside their rice ad adlay

miller. There, we saw different post-harvest equipment they are using

for their post-harvest process like corn shriller, mechanical dryer, corn

and rice miller, adlay miller and many more machineries that are some

are not functional inside the farm. Also he discuss to us small

information about adlay.

After the tour, sir Hil came to Engr. Jerry to ask if h can borrow

us to help for their preparation of the efficacy test.

During on the preparation of the efficacy test, we meet Dr.

OrMac the research doctor in-charge with the efficacy test and his

research aid Bryan. On the preparation, we ask to gather the different

organic components of the efficacy test. There, we discovered different

organic materials that the VPO farms are using. They use their

different waste in the farm to make fertilizer that are beneficial to the
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farm, like the swine manure, oil palm processing sludge, rendered

chicken, pig and intestine, corn cobs, chicken dung, cacao pods, coffee

pods, rice hull and coco coir. During the preparation of the materials,

there is a bad odor occur because some of the medium like the

rendered is not fully decayed that resulting to it bad and stinky smell.

On the next day, after the preparation of the materials, we lay-

outed the field which the efficacy test will be done, we label no just

each field but also those materials and their treatment together with

some synthetic fertilizer as comparison.

As the day forward, Engr., Jerry accompany us and give us some

insights on his experience in the licensure exam in Agricultural

engineering, also some real life experience in the real word scenario.

Before we take our leave in the engineering department. Engr. Jerry

conduct an exam to measure our learnings in the engineering

department.

Livestock Department

(July 25, 2018 – August 10, 2018)

On the livestock department, Ma’am Zab lend us to Engr.

Jonathan as our supervisor during our stay in their department

because she told us that she has no knowledge about our degree
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which is only Engr. Jonathan can relate because he has the same field

of work as ours.

Ma’am Zab give us a task to lay-out their different farm

structures building and to report our observation on their lacking

inside every building and also to take inventories on their different

machines.

On our first day of the livestock department, we measure their

feed mill and observed how they handle their product. Also we take

some observation of their operation.

After on the feed mill, we next measure the hatchery, where in

there, we witness on how they handle their eggs from receiving,

incubation, hatching up to vaccinating. We also done what we do to

feed mill which is we list their machines and take observation of their

lapses.

Next is on the layer building, there we measure their tongshe

and china building also we saw how they harvest their eggs and what

are the process and treatment they made every building. Tongshe is a

Malaysian style building with an open air ventilated building while the

china is a Chinese style building with air-condition inside. We also

take observation and inventory in each building.

Next is the poultry building, the TV Blue which is a newly stablish

building for growing broilers. Their equipment are from china and it is
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an air-conditioned building. 3 of us take the measurements and 1 for

inventory and observation and another one for the lay-out in the

autocad.

On August 5, we meet Dr. Nervy (Vit. Med), the boss of Ma’am

Zab and Engr. Jonathan (They are not employed by the VPO-farm,

they are from the company of Dr. Nervy which VPO contacted for some

expert supervision in his farm). He was educated about BSAE because

he told to us that he is joining every year’s PSAE national convention.

There, we reported to Dr. Nervy the lay-out and our observation and

recommendation on the problem we saw in every building.

On the last 3 days of our OJT, the last building we measured is

the piggery. Which is in their piggery, it is an air-conditioned building

but we observed a lot of problems inside. We list down those problem

and made a report to those problems and recommendation to solve it

together with the lay-out of the building.

On our last day of training, we report to Engr. Jonathan about

the problems we observed inside the piggery and also we give to him

the compilations of our report from feed mill to piggery together with

the lay-out as our accomplishment report. After that he did some chit

chat with us on how relevant our on-the-job training in the real world.

After that we bid good bye to him.

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3.3 Problems encountered and proposed

3.3.1 Technical
The VPO Farm is so much updated farm when in terms of small

scale farming. It may not be called small skilled farm because 1/3 rd

of the land of the Rosario is owned by the VPO farm. But because

they are using advance technology in their farm, some of their

workers specially those old works cannot coup-up with their high

technology system. Also the maintenance of their machines are not

been properly monitored because only few of them have

information on those machines, just those people with education

about the said machines.

Another observation we have observed is that some of their

facilities have equipment that are damage and not functional that

needed to be replace and remove to avoid any problem before,

during and after operation.

3.3.2 Administrative
The following are some problems encountered during the on-

the-job training in VPO-RAIDC

 The administration, maybe because of their large scope

of work failed to give some maintenance assistance to

every machines inside the farm.

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 The other is they are failed to give personal protective

equipment to their workers like hard hat, mask and

gloves on feed mill, mask on piggery, layer and poultry.

Most especially those workers that are engaging on the

different bad smell inside the farm like on the organic

building that even though it is an open air building, still

the bad odor is just inside.

 Lack of workers on some field of area in livestock

department.

3.4 Conclusions

Inside the 45 days of staying at VPO Rosario Agro-Industrial

Development Corporation as a trainee, the trainees can conclude that

On the Job Training is very important in shaping future career. Thus, it

gives insights as to what real world will throw. The trainees can

conclude that they satisfactory finished the job given to them.

Socializing, managing, respect, patience and giving value to work is

the thing that they could bring in the present and for future. Moreover,

the trainings they conducted at VPO-RAIDC help them to be more self-

competence that the trainees could use for their forthcoming

professions.
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Furthermore, VPO-RAIDC is a good training ground for shaping

the different qualities and attitude of the trainees and also during their

stay in the VPO Farm, they witness how unique their way of agriculture

(farming). They did not just help nature; by them using organic

materials and conserving energy with the use of biogas and flowing

water from the mountains, they are also helping every residence in

Rosario to be employed. Educational status is not a hindrance for a

Rosariohonon to work on their farm instead they are employing those

people with no educational background to help them on their individual

lives.

3.5 Recommendations

To the next batch of OJT, the trainees recommend that:

 Find a company or an institution that relates on their program.

 During the training, they should focus on their job in the

company or institution they would undergone.

 The next trainees should take the 360 hours of training as an

important opportunity for molding their learnings and applying

theory to the real world application.

 They should intact on their mind what are the trainings they

encounter during their training and whole heartedly accept the

critics for the supervisors.

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 The next trainees should always pay attention during any

activities they may conduct.

 They must always learn respect and patience during the training.

 Be prepare on the changes of different activities during the

training.

To the company

 They should assign some person to monitor the status and

repair of their machineries.

 Take some of our recommendation we give on our reports on

the livestock department, especially those recommendations

concerning the health of their workers and also their livestock.

 Because of using organic, the bad smell occurs most of all the

time especially in the pig grower building, and the bad smell

travel by means of air and expose to the houses near the farm.

If possible, use a machine that eliminate the bad odor

(compressor machine) of every building not just for the

household near the farm but also for the safety of the workers

inside the farm.

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4. APPENDIX

4.1 Certificate of Completion

4.2 Evaluation Sheet

4.3 Student pledge

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4.4 Pictures with caption

Figure 2. The trainees in the nursery arranging the bags of cacao

trees.

Figure 3. The trainees during their grafting activity

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Figure 4. The trainees during their organic fertilizer application on the

cacao trees.

Figure 5. The trainees during mixing and bagging activity

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Figure 6. The trainee on their mulching activity

Figure 7. The trainee during their tour at the Kisom

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Figure 8. The picture of their Figure 9. The picture of the

solar dryer solar dried cacao beans

Figure 10. The trainee during their insect collecting activity

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Figure 11. The trainee during the lay-outing of the field in the efficacy
test

Figure 12. The trainees during the measurement gathering and

inventory on the layer buildings
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Figure 13. The trainees during the measurement gathering and

inventory on the Feed Mill

Figure 14. The trainees during the measurement gathering and

inventory on the hatchery building
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4.5 DTR

4.6 Approved/Signed Documents