Fruit Packing and Grading | National Certificate NQF 3 Online Course
This course equips learners with the essential knowledge and skills needed to efficiently grade, sort, and pack fruit for commercial distribution. It focuses on quality control, safety standards, and industry best practices to ensure that fruit meets market requirements.
Why Take This Fruit Packing and Grading Processes Course
Completing this course prepares learners for roles in fruit packing houses, supply chain management, and quality control. It develops competencies that improve operational efficiency and product marketability while ensuring compliance with industry standards. This qualification is ideal for those seeking careers in agricultural production and agribusiness.
What You Will Learn
- Fruit identification and classification
- Grading and sorting techniques according to standards
- Correct packing methods and materials usage
- Hygiene and safety procedures in packing environments
- Quality control and inspection processes
Who Should Enrol
- Workers in fruit packing and grading facilities
- Individuals pursuing careers in agricultural supply chains
- Quality control and inspection staff in agribusiness
- Anyone interested in fruit handling and post-harvest management
This fruit packaging grading process provides learners with the opportunity to obtain competence in broad fruit packaging and grading processes and practices, namely receiving, handling, packing, storing, grading, and dispatching of fruits.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the use of different number bases and measurement units and an awareness of error in the context of relevant calculations
- Describe, apply, analyse and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts
- Investigate life and work-related problems using data and probabilities
- Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business and national issues
- Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication
- Interpret and use information from texts
- Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes
- Write texts for a range of communicative contexts
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic requirements of different fruit markets
- Explain product characteristics
- Explain the cold chain process
- Monitor fruit treatment process
- Operate fruit packing line machine
- Operate fruit sizing machine
- Grade fruit
- Pack fruit
- Palletise fruit
- Dispatch final product
- Receive fruit
- Store fruit
- Apply hygiene procedures
- Apply safety and health procedures
- Duration: 12 Months
- Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
- Competence in languages, communication & numeracy at NQF Level 2
- Packer and Grader
- Packing and Grading Supervisor
- Packing and Grading Manager
- Packing and Grading Team Leader
- National Certificate: Fruit Packing and Grading Processes
- Accreditation: Agri Seta
- SAQA ID: 48848
- NQF Level: 3