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Sustainable Farming Practices

LEVEL: 2
UNIT STANDARDS: 116121 ; 116127 ; 116070 ; 116077 ; 116060 ; 116064 ; 9007 ; 9009
CREDITS: 32
OUTCOMES:

  • Apply basic practices to conserve the environment, including natural resources.
  • Carry out basic physical farm layout tasks including construction of rainwater harvesting and soil conservation structures in a small farm or garden environment.
  • Monitor and support the implementation of food safety and quality, production, environmental and social practices and awareness within the agricultural supply chain.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of water quality to agriculture and to monitor and maintain water quality using established procedures.
  • Select basic equipment and implements that are appropriate to a combination of activities within a single agricultural process.
  • Explain basic functions of the environment by recognising patterns and processes, knowing local resources and basic sustainable agricultural processes using environmental indicators.
  • Apply mathematical calculations within the agricultural environment.