Republic of the PhilippinesCEBU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Barili Campus, Barili, Cebu

ON-THE-JOB TRAINING

NIEUWKOOP EUROPE B.V.Name of the Cooperating Industry

De Kwakel, The NetherlandsAddress of CI

A JournalSubmitted to theOJT Coordinators

CTU- Barili CampusCebu, Philippines

by:

JENNIBETH J. VILLAFLORES

Course & Major: Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Horticulture Program: Day

October 2012Date Submitted

APPROVAL SHEET

A journal of “ON-THE-JOB TRAINING: Nieuwkoop Europe B.v.” prepared and submitted by Jennibeth J. Villaflores in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Horticulture has been examined for acceptance and approval.

JOURNAL COMMITTEE

MATHEU KESTER ANDREA A. MATILDO OJT Adviser/ Area Coordinator OJT Coordinator

Approved by the Committee with a grade of _________

Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the <Degree> Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Horticulture.

ANDREA A. MATILDO OJT Coordinator

____________________ Date

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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A million thanks to the SSCebu founders who had the efforts in handling all the things, which made possible, that brought me here in this wonderful country, The Netherlands. These kindhearted people are Gerard Stokman, Henk Koning, Cathy Boltron and to Cebu Technological University instructors that you chose me as one of the practicant in Netherlands.

I really appreciate my parents, my brothers and sisters who encouraged and supported me in all my decisions and from whom I get my strength. Thank you very much. You inspired me. To the persons who composed in Saint Peter Academy Incorporated who had the helping hand to support us students and to give us chance to achieve our dreams in life by financial and moral support, especially to the German Sponsors and to my sponsor Anette Fischer, Honorable Verna and Dr. Gilberto Magallon, and to the Support Center employees. To the OJT Committee Mrs.Andrea Matildo, Mrs Andresa Pasaje and Mr. Genes Pasaje for choosing me as one of the practicum for the Batch 15. Thank you for believing and trusting me for this practicum.

For my six months staying here in The Netherlands, I did not felt homesick because of the people around me who made me smile and feel that I am special. Thank you so much to my batch mates for your advice, for lifting me up when I am down, for the moments and experiences we have shared, you made me realized and knew who I really am. To Alice and Gerard Stokman, Elly and Henk Koning, Oscar and Ina Marsman, Willem Bart, Henk Hijstek, Ema and Henry Djemoe, Cristine and Bart Zwaan, Ada Pennings, Catherine Punsalan, Carla Solomon, Jennifer Balmaceda, and Cathy Boltron and family, thank you for your kindness, knowledge, advices, patience, for sharing your time with us, and made us realized how life must be. To my adviser Dennis Wegbrands, Esther Mooij, and supervisor Mathue Kester, thank you for being very approachable, kind, understanding, and patience when I got wrong in my work, for the corrections; for the knowledge that you have shared even when I disturb you in your busy time in work but still you give time to answer my questions. And also to my co-workers, thank you so much. Special thanks to Henk Nieuwkoop and Nieuwkoop Europe B.V. for accepting me to have my practicum.

For all the things and the people around me, thank you to our Almighty God who sent them as my inspiration and instrument to achieve these wonderful moments in my life here in Netherlands, for the strength, for the graces, enlightenment of my mind, heart and soul, for the wisdom and guidance when I’m in the path of darkness. All of these, I dedicated it to You.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Title Page

2. Approval Sheet

3. Acknowledgement

4. Table of Contents

5. Introduction

5.1. Name of Company5.2. History

5.2.1. Company Profile5.2.2. Organizational Structure/ Chart5.2.3. Duties/ Functions of On-the-Job Trainee

6. Body6.1. Summary of Monthly Activities6.2. Learning in Different Training Areas

7. Summary/ Conclusion7.1. Things learned during the OJT

8. Recommendation8.1. Over-all suggestions/ comments

8.1.1. Potential of company as a Cooperating8.1.2. Availability and appropriateness of facilities, equipment and machinery8.1.3. Company personnel cooperation

8.2. Duration of training (too long or too short)8.3. Proposed revisions for the improvement of the training program8.4. Advise to future OJTs to the company or to other companies in general.

9. Appendices9.1. Pictorials9.2. Other documents

9.2.1. Certificate of Completion (stating No. of hours rendered)9.2.2. Performance rating from the company9.2.3. Accomplished Evaluation Form of OJT Sessions9.2.4. Accomplished Evaluation Form of OJT Experience9.2.5. Resume of OJT (for employment assistance purposes)

History Nieuwkoop started in 1970 to used hydroculture using gravel. Hans Nieuwkoop was the

first Dutch man who applied hydroculture in whole Europe. By using this technology, tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, and chrysanthemum had become abundant in his production. Hydroculture is growing plants in soil less culture, this is achieved supporting the plant roots in pure expanded clay pellets together with especially formulated fertilizer and controlled watering system. As he started with 500 m2 , the greenhouse expanded but there was limitation because there was no enough land for it and the auction market was too far for transportation. His son, Henk Nieuwkoop decided to have his own business started with small packinghouse and the products sold directly to the customer. Time goes on, his client demanded new plants. By this demand of his client, his company where he started a sales office in the wholesale centre for florists, named Cultura at the Aalsmeer Flower Auction (now called FloraHolland Aalsmeer) in 1983, he applied the cash-and-carry principles. Later, Henk Nieuwkoop started another company located near the auction of FloraHolland Naaldwijk at Pyramide, a similar type of trade centre to Cultura in Aaslmeer. In 1990, Henk Nieuwkoop hired a small 3,000m2 business in De Kwakel for temporary storage and sales of soil plants.

Later, Henk Nieuwkoop decided to built his company in efficient for them which composed of greenhouses, shipping area and warehouse, offices for administration and sales department, which had a hyper modernized, high technologies and well-equipped company were

operated, including the Digital Order Picking and other gadget which are connected to WiFi and Nieuwkoop-Europe B.V. was only the leading company that used this gadget. The company is composed of 60, 000 m2

that was subdivided into five areas the 30,000m2 for the glasshouse of which 2/3 was 8 meters tall and the other 1/3 was even 11 meters tall, the 4,600 m2 for the shipping area and warehouse in two parts, one for processing and storing incoming live and dead materials and one for

preparing outgoing plants that have been sold for shipment, the 750 m2 is for offices for administration and sales department and the 10,000 m2 for the parking space, and the remaining 9,000 m2 left for future expansion. It is operated since May 2000 called Nieuwkoop De Kwakel until December 31,2008 and on January 1,2009, the company was called Nieuwkoop Europe B.V. because people in other country don’t knew where is De Kwakel and it is hard for them to speak out De Kwakel. The company has a large commercial nursery with about 150 different species of plants imported from the various parts of the world. Some of them grown in the premises, other are bought from other various hydroponics nurseries. It created a very huge business network and exports a very broad range of plant to new fewer than twelve European countries like Germany, France and Switzerland are the major customers.

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Nieuwkoop-Europe B.V. was the biggest buildings of all the company, which owned by Henk Nieuwkoop and was located in De Kwakel, which was centrally located with 4km away from the Aalsmeer Flower Auction where there are numerous customers, are present. This run through business to business. The company used hydroculture where the plants place in a soil less or grown using expanded clay. These business products demanded because of the uniqueness, having the highest quality, user-friendly, and easy to manage, just putting water with nutrients (as food) directly to the plants. Naturally, (Nieuwkoop Europe B.V.) their business is through importing cultivars, pots and other materials from the other country and so as producing and exporting them (in a hydro form) as pot plants grown through hydroponics and sophisticated items. Having the right business channels is very important to Nieuwkoop Europe B.V. as a trading company. The company has now branches in the different flower auctions in the Netherlands: Nieuwkoop Green Centre, the wholesale centre for florists and more, located in De Kwakel, at FloraHolland in Naaldwijk (Pyramide), Plantion in Ede, and in the other country in Bezons France. There the plants sold nationally and internationally. In addition, Nieuwkoop Europe has now four extra production locations near the company in De Kwakel and Aalsmeer. Unfortunately, one of the production locations burned last May 13, 2011 that all the plants turned into ashes. Also, Cultura nowadays doesn’t exist anymore since Nieuwkoop Green Centre started in October 2010.

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Management and Employees

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Matheu Kester

Assistant Manager/ Supervisor in Hydroculture

Mr. Henk Nieuwkoop

(President)

Dennis Wegbrands

Manager

Ronald de Vries

Head in Potting Area

Danny Gerritsen

2nd Director/

ICT Manager/

Eduard Vroege

Financial Director

Anja Oosterwijk

Product Development

Manager

Marc Bakker

Sales Manager

Thom Schonk

Purchase Manager

René Veen

Supervisor in

Soil Plants

Floor Plan

Nieuw bassin – New basin Hydro floors – (93 - 96); (E102A) Hydro tables – (E108A - E111A) (E106A – E107A)

Water bassin – Water basin (F112A – F116A) KH – boiler house (F119A – F128A)

Floor (soil culture plants) Nieuwkoop Green Centre(F117A – F118A) Potting Area – (E101A) (F141A – F144A)(F130A – F140A) (D700A tm D770H)

Acclimatization – (F099A) Machineries – (G101A) Kantoor - Office

Storage area (newly deliver plants)Hydro floors (tent) (F098A) Delivery Entrance – (H200A)

(E100A)(E103A – E105A) Loading Area – (H100A) Packing Area – (B830A)

- (A600B) Storage area (plant pots) - (B840A tm B880I) - (B820A) (A380A tm A590S) - (B810A) - (B800A) (A100A tm A370T A6)

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Crop choiceThe company has 150 different plants as of the moment are imported from other

countries and specialized in tropical plants. The following are the plants present in the company, which I worked with:

Aeschynanthus lobbianos var.Hanger Crassula minor Ficus microcarpa / bonsaiAeschynanthus lobbianos Hanger Croton (Codiaeum) petra Ficus microcarpa ginsengAglaonema ‘B.J. Freedman’ Cycas revoluta Ficus moclameAglaonema christina Cyperus alternifolius Ficus natasjaAglaonema keylime Dracaena cintho Stam Ficus repens HangerAglaonema king of siam Dracaena demenensis Hedera montgomery HangerAglaonema maria Dracaena fragrans Kalanchoe spiderAglaonema silver bay Dracaena godseffiana Kalanchoe thysifloraAglaonema stripe Dracaena golden coast Mammeliaria spinicicimaAglomorfa coronan Dracaena golden dream Nephrolepsis green fantasyAloe mitriformis Dracaena yellow coast Peperomia happy beanAnthurium black queen Donker Dracaena limelight Peperomia peleolataAnthurium brown king Dracaena marginata Peperomia rotundifoliaAnthurium chocolate beauty D. pleomele song of india Peperomia usaAnthurium chocolate love brown D. pleomele song of jamaica Philodendron golden photo Hanger

Anthurium cocos D. pleomele song of costa rica Philodendron imperial redAnthurium faran Bordeaux D. pleomele anita Philodendron micasAnthurium florino Lila-paars Dracaena reflexa anita Philodendron piccoloAnthurium lilian Dracaena surculosa Philodendron scandensAnthurium medallion bronze Echinocactus grusonii Platycerium bifurcatumAnthurium otazu Brown Eonium Sanseviria future uperbaAnthurium vivaro Red Epipremnum N’joy Hanger Sanseviria mekadoAnthurium pink champion Euphorbia milli gabii Red Schefflera arboricola compactaAralia (polyscias) balfouriana Euphorbia trigona Red Schefflera gold capellaAralia (polyscias) roble Excoecaria cochichinensis Toef Schefflera jasmineAreca lucethens Ficus alii Schefflera LouisianaAsparagus falcatus Ficus amstel Scindapsus pictus HangerAspidistra elatior Ficus anastasja Scindapsus moonshine

Zamioculcus zamifolia

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Asplenium antiquum Ficus bambinoChamaedora elegans Ficus benjaminaChloraphytum ocean Hanger Ficus cyathistipulaChlorophytum laxum Ficus DanielleCissus ellen danica hanger Ficus elastica robustaCissus striata Hanger Ficus golden kingColadium variegatum Ficus green kirkyCordyline ‘Glauca’ Ficus lyrata bambino

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DUTIES/ FUNCTIONS OF ON-THE-JOB TRAINEE

Duties and functions of On-The-Job Trainee in the company are the same duties and responsibility of an ordinary/ regular glasshouse worker. The following are the duties and functions of the OJT trainee:

Must follow the rules and regulations implemented in the company. Take and follows the command of the OJT Supervisor and the Company Manager. Must work the jobs of the company within a required time and day. Must be on time before the manager started to give instructions in regular working days. Must take good care of the company’s facilities and equipment. Must take the following jobs inside the company:

Preparing of plants for washing by removing the medium or wrapper Washing the roots in pressure water Potting the plants Arranging potted plants in hydrofloor and hydrotable Putting labels to the potted hydrocultured plants Pruning of Ficus microcarpa, bonsai and Dracaena cintho stam Cutting of old, infected, and rotten leaves Removal of unwanted parts of Ficus microcarpa (new shoot around the stem) Putting stick and rings Cleaning in hydrotable, hydrofloor and spoelen area (washing area)

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Monthly OJT Status Report

Name of OJT: Jennibeth J. Villaflores

( Inclusive Date ) No Fixed Date

Course and Major: BSA major in Horticulture

From: March

Cooperating Industry: Nieuwkoop Europe B.V.

To: April

Summary of Monthly Activities:

Cutting of hanging plants Hedera, Scindapsus, Philodendron,etc. which had different species and varieties.

Cleaning of hydrotable includes removal of expanded clay, algae, dried leaves that soaks to the hydrotable and rust in its edging.

Removal of dried leaves and other unwanted parts of the hydro plants.

Separation of rejected plants.

Remarks:

First week working in the company, I have undergone amazement of the technologies and lots of adjustment at work and curiosity of the things in the greenhouse.

It was hard for me at first working with different people with different nationalities and attitudes towards work but still I enjoy working with them. They are friendly and approachable that I easily asked them about the company and its operations.

After 8 days biking almost 22km per day; my body adopted the temperate climate from usual temperature in the Philippines.

Learning/ Insights: Leaves which contact in the water contain

nutrients causes’ bacterial blight, yellowing and rotten of leaves including the stems of hanging plants.

Removal of expanded clay and leaves in the hydro table caused of clogging in drainage hole.

To get the best quality of hydro plants, it must be presentable by removing the unwanted parts of the plant like dried, wilting and rotten leaves and stems.

Cleaning the area after working with plants maintains the cleanliness in the greenhouse and prevents the growth of diseases and bacteria’s.

NOTED:

OJT Supervisor: _ MATHEU KESTER _ Signature over printed name

Remarks:(CI OJT Supervisor)

Has alertness at work and had confidence to ask questions. She has interest in her assigned work. She worked well, friendly and smiling.

Monthly OJT Status Report

Name of OJT: Jennibeth J. Villaflores

( Inclusive Date ) No Fixed Date

Course and Major: BSA major in Horticulture

From: April

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SUMMARY / CONCLUSION

Within six month in Netherlands were the most precious days I had as a student. I observed many differences between Netherlands and Philippines in terms in agriculture, culture, weather, and seasons. The Netherlands is well-organized kingdom, well developed and well equipped. The Netherlands has the favorable environment with the support of the government, competitive agricultural sector, good entrepreneurial skills, support from a state-of-the-art agricultural research and education system, innovative supply and processing industries, the availability of inexpensive natural gas supporting greenhouse horticulture and floriculture as well as the production of cheap fertilizers and used biological control for controlling the insects that naturally occurs in Mother Nature. The great impact of having machineries and equipment’s to Dutch people is that their work become easier and not time consuming made their country as one of the major exporter of agricultural products especially in horticultural and agronomical products. Their technologies increases the production in which they made products as a competent to other countries all over the world by having there breeding laboratories and greenhouses, which introduces the new varieties that were undergo with special treatments and used automatic gadgets connected and manipulated by a computer. In terms of plants, they imported tropical plants from other countries which the companies of plants replanted them, made them more presentable for interior and exterior landscaping, putting them into the ceramics or shifting them to hydrocultured plants, and distributed them locally and internationally exported them to the neighboring countries of the kingdom to other continent of the world.

The Philippines is a developing country which has favorable environment for many crops in the whole year round but then the agricultural lands became smaller and smaller where the land used as residential subdivisions, resorts or industrial parks and golf courses. Some of the small landholders sell their land in exchange for cash since all the inputs and wages for hiring workers will cost lack of capital as well as for the fertilizers, seeds and pesticide. There is another concern that farmers’ continue using chemical-based fertilizers or pesticides that have destroy soil productivity. Because of this, agriculturist introduced organic fertilizer. There are few machineries and laboratories but still improper management of the plants, uncontrolled climate and there in opened field which favor for attacked by pest and diseases. The primary livelihood of the citizens is farming, fisheries, livestock, and forestry despite the plan that Philippines make it an industrialized economy since 2000. The great problem in the Philippines is the level of unemployment by the labour force, poverty and low level of education decided the teenagers enter into an early parenthood that increases the human population and unemployed citizens.

In terms of my practicum, I learned and experienced dealing with new technologies and collected information about hydrocultured plants, its process and the management. I concluded that this kind of cultivating plants will be demanded in the future even nowadays because most of the lands are covered with infrastructure, the increasing human population that causes to build houses in the agricultural lands and the buildings that contributing to the “ sick building syndrome “ cause by plastics tree, electric matters, and electronic because these materials produce carbon dioxide and formaldehyde, when it is mixed with water it is called formalin which is use to preserve or disinfectant that effects human health. The more effective air cleaners according to NASA is the hydroculture shows that 30 m2 room can be cleansed by 3 to 6 hydrocultured plants acting as natural pollution filters than the man-made air cleaners.In my leanings in the Netherlands, the best phrase I want to apply to my county is “Time is money “.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. As a student and a Practicant, I recommended to the company where I worked that before thenext Practicant start of his/ her work in the 1st day or 1st week, please give time to have orientation to them so that they will know what are the activities that they are

APPENDICES

Pruning Potting using expanded clay Putting Ring with stick

Cleaning in Hydrotable Putting Labels Arranging Hydrocultured

plants in Hydrotable

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