CATCH ABOUT AFA STRAND

AFA is? The subjects under TVL track strictly follow TESDA’s rules, ensures workplace-ready students. In fact, every TVL strand helps students acquire job-ready skills.

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    This Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL) component consists of specializations equivalent to qualifications under agriculture and fishery sectors. Students with agri-fishery arts specializations will be able to demonstrate necessary skills/competencies and values on the cultivation of plants and animal production to harvest food and other products using available technologies on farming and on raising, harvesting, and capturing fish and other aquatic resources. 

  

    Agri-Fishery strand offers subjects that are included in the field productions. These include agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture. Others also include food processing and various material production. Here are the specializations of the Agri-Fishery strand.

  

    There are a lot of businesses you can start once you graduate in this track. You can open a fishpond, be a rice thresher, or begin a small scale food processing enterprise. However, this does not mean you can’t pursue college degrees anymore. You can still take up courses on agriculture, fisheries, and forestry. After college, you can get to careers such as development researcher, agriculturist, animal husbandry, or aquatic ecologist .

    

"The Agri-Fishery strand was designed for hands-on learning and application of skills that are related to agriculture and aquaculture."

Agri-Fishery strand specializations

• Agricultural Crops Production (NC I, NC II, NC III)
• Animal Health Care Management (NC III)
• Animal Production (NC II)
• Aquaculture (NC II)
• Artificial Insemination (NC II)
• Fish Capture (NC II)
• Fishing Gear Repair and Maintenance (NC III)
• Fish-Products Packaging (NC II)
• Fish Wharf Operation (NC I)
• Horticulture (NC III)
• Landscape Installation and Maintenance (NC II)
• Organic Agriculture (NC II)
• Pest Management (NC II)
• Rice Machinery Operations (NC II)
• Rubber Processing and Production (NC II)
• Slaughtering Operations (NC II)

    

    This strand will help you learn the needed skills when putting up a business. There are also courses related to this strand that you can take such as agriculture, fisheries, forestry, etc. Read on to know more about the last strand under the TVL track.

Possible Career Paths with AFA Strand

• Fish farm manager
• Commercial farmer
• Agriculturist, Livestock specialist
• Agri-technologist
• Aquatic Ecologist
• Development Researcher.

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references:

https://www.teacherph.com/specialized-subjects-tvl-agricultural-and-fisheries-arts-strand/

https://www.ciit.edu.ph/tvl-track/

https://www.alshore.net/Careers.php