Course Level
Certificate III
CRICOS
113093F
Certificate III in Protected Horticulture - AHC33722
This qualification describes the skills and knowledge for individuals who work in the protected horticulture industry undertaking skilled work in the areas of picking, packing, crop and nursery work.Individuals with this qualification perform tasks under broad supervision involving a broad range of skills that are applied in a wide variety of contexts, which will involve discretion and judgement in selecting and operating equipment, coordinating resources and applying contingency measures during work.Work must comply with work health and safety and environmental regulations and legislation that apply to the workplace.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Campus | Duration | Fees | ATAR |
|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide - Level 3 | Full-time - 52 weeks | N/A | N/A |
Subjects
- Operate the palletising process
- Undertake propagation activities
- Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Maintain stock control and receivals
- Operate the labelling process
- Bench graft vines
- Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
- Collect and record production data
- Establish horticultural crops
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Monitor the implementation of food safety and quality programs
- Apply principles of food packaging
- Operate tractors
- Inspect and clean machinery, tools and equipment to preserve biosecurity
- Identify and report signs of unusual disease or pest
- Transport and store chemicals
- Operate machinery and equipment
- Perform plant blocking on
- Apply quality systems and procedures
- Participate in improvement processes
- Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Participate in an audit process
- Support horticultural crop harvesting
- Prepare growing media
- Clean equipment in place
- Coordinate horticultural crop harvesting
- Access, extract and monitor water for irrigation
- Install and maintain vertical hanging trellis
- Respond to emergencies
- Coordinate work site activities
- Carry out manual handling tasks
- Control weeds
- Operate fertigation equipment
- Measure irrigation delivery system performance
- Operate a forklift
- Control stock
- Implement a plant nutrition program
- Undertake field budding and grafting
- Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems
- Operate a process control interface
- Report on workplace performance
- Use infotechnology devices in the workplace
- Organise receival and despatch operations
- Perform manual pollination of crops
- Operate the carton erection process
- Install hydroponic systems
- Clean and sanitise equipment
- Maintain nursery plants
- Administer inventory systems
- Monitor and operate water treatment processes
- Licence to operate a forklift truck
- Establish and monitor hydroponic crops
- Provide First Aid
- Operate and monitor a filtration process
- Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
- Operate and monitor interrelated processes in a production or packaging system
- Set up a production or packaging line for operation
- Provide information on plants and their culture
- Implement a crop regulation program
- Perform basic packaging tests and inspections
- Contribute to workplace health and safety processes
- Use product knowledge to complete work operations
- Maintain crop
Related Courses
Certificate III in Horticulture - AHC30722
Australian Health and Horticulture Institute
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Certificate III in Horticulture - AHC30722
Charles Darwin University (CDU)
