PLANT PRODUCTION LEVEL 2

Modules and Courses

Module 1: Communication

• Access and use information from text
• Maintain and adapt oral communication
• Write for a defined text
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programs

Module 2: Mathematical Literacy

• Apply basic knowledge of statistics and probability to influence the use of data and procedures in order to investigate life-related problems
• Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve problems
• Demonstrate an understanding of rational and irrational numbers and the numbers systems
• Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life
• Measure, estimate and calculate physical quantities and explore, describe and represent geometrical relationships in two dimensions in different life or workplace contexts

Module 3: General Agricultural Practices

• Recognise and identify the basic functions of the ecological environment
• Monitor, collect and collate agricultural data
• Access the influence of the environment on sustainable livestock production
• Utilise and perform minor repair and maintenance tasks on implements, equipment and infrastructure
• Store and control agrochemical products effectively and responsibly

Module 4: Agricultural Business

• Apply marketing principles in agriculture
• Apply layout principles for conservation and infrastructure
• Control inputs and stock in agribusiness
• Define and understand production systems and production management
• Explain principles of human resource management and practices in the agricultural environment
• Illustrate and understand the basic layout of financial statements
• Operate and support food safety and quality management systems in the agricultural supply chain

Module 5: Plant Production

• Apply crop protection and animal health products effectively and responsibly
• Apply plant manipulation methods
• Demonstrate an understanding of plant propagation
• Harvest agricultural crops
• Monitor the establishment of a crop
• Monitor water quality
• Operate and maintain specific irrigation systems
• Understand basic soil fertility and plant nutrition
• Understand the structure and functions of a plant
• Control pests, diseases and weeds on all crops effectively and responsibly

Module 6: Natural Resource Management

• Apply sustainable farming practices to conserve the ecological environment
• Identify and recognise factors influencing agricultural enterprise selection
• Participate in agri/ecotourism practices at both micro and meso levels for tourists