BASIS - Advanced Module - Potatoes

This course is designed for professional consultants, advisers and representatives working in the crop protection industry. It will also be of value to managers of crop protection products, farmers with a large arable concern and those qualified for the BASIS Professional Register who want to extend and update their specialist knowledge or who wish to gain Continuing Professional Development Points.

There is an examination to qualify towards the BASIS Advanced Certificate or the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy.

As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the requirements for growth, development and management of the potato crop.

Make decisions that are agronomically, economically and environmentally sound.

Gain Continuing Professional Development points.

Course content

Soil types and site selection

Fertilisers – practice and progress

Crop establishment

Crop protection including current developments

Crop mechanisation

Factory requirements for harvesting, handling and storage

Qualification

Successful examination qualifies one out of four modules required for the BASIS Advanced Certificate or the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy and the newly accredited Harper Adams University Graduate Diploma in Agronomy with Environmental Management. This course also accrues 30 Continuing Professional Development points.