Course Overview

PURPOSE

The purpose of this qualification is to allow supervisors to progress towards a junior farm manager position with specific reference to plant production.

COURSE CONTENT

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