Course Overview

PURPOSE

The purpose of this qualification is to allow junior personnel and elected candidates to progress towards a position of farm labourers (operators) with specific reference to plant production.

COURSE CONTENT

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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 programmes

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
Assess 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