Online Crops Course

Many will use this course to become a farm manager, work in marketing horticultural crops or start your own business. Others will use it to enhance a career they have already started in the horticulture industry.

• Learn about management, marketing and business
• Learn about horticultural crop production
• Combine these skills and discover opportunities for employment and business in the cropping industry
• 900 hour, self paced practical course with options to upgrade

This Advanced Certificate develops both the skills required to manage a horticultural farm (eg. Market Garden, Orchard), and also the knowledge in the identification, growing, processing and marketing crops and crop related products. This course involves seven units, plus a 200 hr workplace project.

Core Modules:    These modules provide foundation knowledge for the Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Crops).

•      Industry Project BIP000
•      Industry Project II BIP001
•      Business Operations VBS106
•      Management VBS105
•      Marketing Foundations VBS109
•      Office Practices VBS102

Stream Modules:    Studied after the core modules, stream modules cover more specific or niche subjects.

•      Outdoor Plant Production (Crops I) BHT112
•      Protected Plant Production BHT223 

Elective Modules:    In addition to the core modules, students study any 1 of the following 15 modules.

•      Herb Culture BHT114
•      Commercial Organic Vegetable Growing VHT241
•      Commercial Vegetable Production BHT222
•      Cut Flower Orchids VHT240
•      Cut Flower Production BHT221
•      Fruit Production - Temperate Climate BHT218
•      Fruit Production - Warm Climate BHT217
•      Nut Production BHT219
•      Viticulture BHT220
•      Weed Control BHT209
•      Berry Production BHT309
•      Bush Tucker Plants BHT328
•      Cut Flower Bulbs BHT317
•      Mushroom Production BHT310
•      Warm Climate Nuts BHT308

Note that each module in the Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Crops) is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.

For more information about this course, please request you're free course information pack today!