Boost Your Team's Skills with the New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture – Fruit Production (Level 3)
Elevate Your Business with Skilled Staff
Why Invest in This Programme for Your Team?
Empower your staff and boost your business with the New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture – Fruit Production (Level 3). Equip your team with the skills they need to excel in fruit production, ensuring your business thrives. This programme is ideal for developing essential industry skills and can be completed on its own or as the first year of a New Zealand Apprenticeship.
Key details:
- Level of Study: Level 3
- Duration: 13 months
- Prerequisites: Learners must be employed in the fruit production sector
What Your Staff Will Learn
Key Skills and Knowledge:
- Teamwork & Communication: Enhance your team's ability to work effectively together and communicate clearly while maintaining safe work practices.
- Seasonal Plant Production: Enable your staff to perform crucial seasonal plant production tasks.
- Crop Harvesting: Train your team in routine crop harvesting techniques to improve efficiency.
- Plant Growth & Soil Science: Equip your staff with an understanding of plant growing cycles and basic soil science to optimize production.
- Maintenance Tasks: Ensure your team can carry out essential routine maintenance tasks to maintain plant health.
- Pest & Disease Management: Train your staff to identify, report, and control signs of weeds, plant pests, diseases, and disorders.
Exciting New Topics:
- Organic Composting: Educate your team on compost making and practice composting in organic horticulture.
- Fruit Tree Pruning: Train your staff to prune mature fruit trees and learn techniques for training and pruning young fruit trees.
- Weather Interpretation: Equip your team to describe weather, climate, and micro-climate characteristics, and interpret weather maps for better crop management.