Certificate II in Production Horticulture - AHC20316

Australian College of Agriculture & Horticulture

Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 02494A

The qualification enables individuals to select a tree cropping, vegetable or berry production, grape growing or mushroom production context as a job focus, or a mixture in the case of mixed enterprises.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

Structure

  • 15 units: 1 core
  • 14 elective

Subjects

  • Undertake propagation activities
  • Conduct weighbridge operations
  • Carry out post-harvest operations
  • Assist with low volume irrigation operations
  • Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
  • Take and process vine cuttings
  • Operate specialised canopy management equipment
  • Carry out hot water treatment
  • Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
  • Operate tractors
  • Operate vineyard equipment
  • Undertake field budding and grafting
  • Use power tools/hand held operations
  • Work in a food handling area for non-food handlers
  • Support horticultural crop harvesting
  • Carry out canopy maintenance
  • Operate two wheel motorbikes
  • Assist with pump and flow control device operations
  • Use hand tools
  • Shift materials safely using manual handling methods
  • Provide information on products and services
  • Maintain callusing envrionment
  • Observe enterprise quality assurance procedures
  • Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
  • Perform mushroom substrate process tasks
  • Train vines
  • Field graft vines
  • Licence to operate a forklift truck
  • Care for nursery plants
  • Produce trellis dried grapes
  • Obtain and process rootlings
  • Operate vehicles
  • Support mechanical harvesting operations
  • Bench graft vines
  • Assist with surface irrigation operations
  • Install and maintain vine trellis
  • Observe and report on weather
  • Operate a four wheel drive on unsealed roads
  • Plant horticultural crops
  • Collect and record production data
  • Treat weeds
  • Carry out potting operations
  • Water mushroom crops
  • Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
  • Maintain properties and structures
  • Follow site quarantine procedures
  • Operate in isolated and remote situations
  • Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
  • Operate nursery cold storage facilities
  • Handle and move mushroom boxes
  • Participate in work health and safety processes
  • Hand prune vines
  • Apply chemicals under supervision
  • Maintain food safety when loading, unloading and transporting food
  • Operate irrigation injection equipment
  • Operate quad bikes
  • Operate basic machinery and equipment

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