Plant
PRODUCTION
Our qualification is designed to equip you with the expertise to allow progression opportunities.
Plant
NQF Level
NQF 5
Credits
240
SAQA Nr
49010
Delivery Mode
Online or F2F
Duration
24 Month
Cost Amount
R45 000
Entry Requirements
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NQF Level 1 (Grade 9)
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Mathematics
This qualification will form the basis for learners to extend their learning into more specialised areas of plant production and management and provides the basis of the establishment of sustainable farming operations through the inclusion of a wide spectrum of competencies required by farmers in South Africa.
What will be included in our costs?
Tablets • PPE • Standard Toolbox • Trade Test • Workplace Monitoring
What this qualification consists of
Knowledge
modules
- Engage in sustained oral communication and evaluate spoken texts.
- Measure, estimate and calculate physical quantities; geometrical relationships.
- Optimise and integrate various farming systems and trends.
- Develop a production and strategic plan for the agricultural business.
- Develop and manage a data collection plan for an agricultural enterprise.
- Integrate marketing plans with business process.
- Manage an input chain.
- Represent and operate on complex numbers in non-trivial situations.
Practical skills
modules
- Manage and control resources in a sustainable manner.
- Optimise water quality.
- Develop and implement a food safety and quality management system.
- Design a natural resource management plan.
- Plan a farm and select a site.
- Develop suitable irrigation systems.
Workplace experiences
modules
- Describe biological processes in plant physiology.
- Manage soil systems.
- Develop a propagation plan for any agricultural production system.
- Manage the harvesting process of agricultural crops.
- Apply integrated pest management principles.
- Develop and implement plant manipulation methods.
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