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Plant Production Qualification

NQF Level 3 | AgriSETA

Plant Production

Advanced qualification for supervisors progressing toward junior farm manager positions in plant production. Develop management skills and technical expertise in crop production systems.

120

Credits

Months

NQF 3

Level

Qualification Overview

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

Students will develop comprehensive management skills, advanced technical knowledge, and business competencies required for supervisory and management roles in plant production operations.

Learning Modules

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: General Agricultural Practices

• Plan and maintain an 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 Agribusiness
• 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