PLANT PRODUCTION NQF 4

• Modules & Courses

Module 1: Communication

• Accommodate audience and contexts in oral communication
• Interpret a variety of literary texts
• Interpret and use information from texts
• Write texts for a range of communicative contexts
• Engage in sustained oral communication and evaluate spoken texts
• Read, analyse and respond to a variety of texts
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes
• Write for a wide range of contexts

Module 2: Mathematical Literacy

• Apply knowledge of statistics and probability to critically interrogate and effectively communicate findings on life-related problems
• Implement a data collection plan
• Measure, estimate & calculate physical quantities & explore, critique & improve geometrical relationships in 2- and 3-dimensional space in the life and workplace of adults with increasing responsibilities
• Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business, national, and international issues

Module 3: Agricultural Practices

• Plan and maintain environmentally sound agricultural process
• Apply effective and responsible integrated pest, disease & weed control
• Develop a harvesting plan for a specific agricultural crop
• Schedule the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems

Module 4: Agricultural Business

• Assume co-responsibility & participation in human resource management
• Give an overview of the industry structure
• Implement a food safety and quality management system in the agricultural supply chain
• Prepare a whole farm budget and establish a properly integrated information system for an Agri-business
• Participate in the development and management of an agricultural marketing plan
• Procure and manage agricultural input
• Implement a permaculture site design

Module 5: Plant Production Principles

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the physiological processes in plant growth and development
• Implement soil fertility and plant nutrition practices
• Manage plant manipulation methods of an agricultural crop
• Manage water quality parameters
• Propagate plants in a variety of situations
• Produce crop in a hydroponic system

Module 6:

• Establish a plan for the monitoring, safe use, and maintenance of equipment implements, technology, and infrastructure

Module 7:

• Execute sustainable resource use and quality control
• Recognise Agri/ecotourism within the strategic environment
• Implement a natural resource management plan
• Implement an integrated farm layout and site selection