Farming NQF Level 1 | AgriSETA

Qualification Overview

The National Certificate: Farming (NQF Level 1) provides foundational knowledge and skills in general agricultural practices. This qualification is designed for individuals entering the agricultural sector with a broad focus on farming operations.

Students will gain practical skills in crop production, farm management, agricultural business principles, and safety practices while developing essential communication and mathematical literacy skills.

Key Objectives

Developing foundational skills across multiple farming disciplines including agronomy, horticulture, and animal husbandry
Providing accessibility and flexibility to accommodate multiple job roles and organisational requirements
Building competencies in communication, mathematical literacy, and practical farming skills
Understanding agricultural business principles including supply and demand, contracts, and production concepts
Learning health and safety principles relevant to agricultural environments
Acquiring hands-on farming practices including fencing, crop harvesting, irrigation, and pest control
Adapting to the changing technological nature of the agricultural industry

This qualification has been benchmarked against New Zealand and Australian qualification frameworks and allows recognition of prior learning. It provides learners with a nationally recognised qualification that supports career development in various agricultural sectors.

Learning Modules

Module 1: Mathematical Literacy

•Analyse cultural products and processes as representations of shape, space and time
•Describe and represent objects and the environment in terms of shape, space, time and motion
•Critically analyse how mathematics is used in social, political and economic relations
•Demonstrate an understanding of and use the numbering system
•Use maps to access and communicate information concerning routes, location and direction
•Working with numbers in various contexts

Module 2: Communication

•Engage with aesthetic, effective, cultural and social values in texts
•Explore and use a variety of strategies to learn (revised)
•Read and respond to a range of text types
•Show a critical awareness of language usage
•Use appropriate communication skills, conventions and structures for specific purposes and situations

Module 3: Farming Principles

•Demonstrate a critical understanding of the role and impact of technology in society
•Demonstrate an understanding of agricultural production management practices in relation to the socio-economic environment
•Demonstrate an understanding of the physical and biological environment and its relationship to sustainable crop production
•Show, explain, discuss and analyse the relationship between society and the natural environment
•Demonstrate an understanding of soil preparation
•Demonstrate an understanding of the cultivation of soil and the control of weeds

Module 4: Agricultural Business

•Demonstrate an understanding of contracts and their sources
•Demonstrate an understanding of how scientific skills and knowledge could contribute to the sustainable use of resources
•Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of supply and demand, and the concept of production
•Discuss development, utilisation, and management of human and natural resources
•Operate in a team

Module 5: Health and Safety Principles

•Demonstrate skills that relate to a safe and secure environment
•Demonstrate an understanding of HIV/AIDS and its implications
•Maintain occupational health and safety
•Demonstrate an understanding of occupational health, safety and environmental legislation relevant to the food or beverage environment

Module 6: Farming Practices

•Erect and maintain wire fencing
•Harvest crops manually
•Irrigate crops to maintain a predetermined moisture content
•Control weeds, pests and plant diseases in an agricultural field using chemicals
•Apply fertiliser manually
•Control nematodes manually using chemicals
•Control weeds manually

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Farming

Qualification Overview

Key Objectives

Learning Modules

Module 1: Mathematical Literacy

Module 2: Communication

Module 3: Farming Principles

Module 4: Agricultural Business

Module 5: Health and Safety Principles

Module 6: Farming Practices

Qualification Details

Career Opportunities

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Farming

Qualification Overview

Key Objectives

Learning Modules

Module 1: Mathematical Literacy

Module 2: Communication

Module 3: Farming Principles

Module 4: Agricultural Business

Module 5: Health and Safety Principles

Module 6: Farming Practices

Qualification Details

Career Opportunities

Related Qualifications

Farming

Plant Production

Animal Production

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