Certificate II in Protected Horticulture - AHC21819
Sunraysia Institute of TAFE (SuniTAFE)
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 01985A
This qualification describes the skills and knowledge for individuals who work in support roles in the protected horticulture industry undertaking routine tasks in the areas of picking, packing, crop and nursery work.Individuals with this qualification work under supervision where the work is predictable and structured with limited judgement requirements.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.
Subjects
- Undertake propagation activities
- Implement the food safety program and procedures
- Carry out manual handling tasks
- Work in a socially diverse environment
- Tend containerised nursery plants
- Bench graft vines
- Pot up plants
- Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
- Operate tractors
- Recognise plants
- Participate in work teams and groups
- Undertake field budding and grafting
- Operate a forklift
- Perform plant blocking on
- Apply quality systems and procedures
- Provide and apply workplace information
- Clean equipment in place
- Use numerical applications in the workplace
- Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Support horticultural crop harvesting
- Apply sampling procedures
- Conduct routine maintenance
- Inspect and clean machinery for plant, animal and soil material
- Package goods
- Care for nursery plants
- Use infotechnology devices in the workplace
- Perform manual pollination of crops
- Plant horticultural crops
- Collect and record production data
- Treat weeds
- Assist with low volume irrigation operations
- Licence to operate a forklift truck
- Work effectively in the industry
- Maintain properties and structures
- Assist with protected cropping water sampling and testing
- Provide first aid
- Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
- Participate in work health and safety processes
- Perform basic packaging tests and inspections
- Maintain crop
- Clean and sanitise equipment
- Operate basic machinery and equipment
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