Course overview
What You Will Study
With over 150,000 businesses, the Agriculture and Horticulture industries offer exciting and varied careers. They provide unique opportunities for people to work in a technically advanced and innovative environment. Work in soil-based systems involves operating large, technically advanced machinery in open fields. Working outdoors means there is variety and challenges to overcome. Similarly, employees working in container-based systems may work outside but for many, most of the work will be in controlled environments which need monitoring and adapting to suit the growth stage/ species growing.
As a Crop Technician you will be responsible for optimising crop/ plant yields through establishment, management, harvest and post-harvest operations, while maintaining and improving the environment. You will also need to keep up to date with technological advances and new innovations. As a Crop Technician you must be able to work independently and in a team to complete tasks safely and efficiently. Many companies now use automation for many routine tasks, which also requires technical skills.
This standard supports apprentices in gaining knowledge, skills and behaviours, and follows a ‘core and options’ approach, meaning an apprentice will qualify as a competent Crop Technician. There are two course pathways: Soil- Based System, or Container- Based System. The pathway will be chosen depending on the nature of the organisation.
This apprenticeship is delivered from our Easton Campus and the typical duration is 30 months.
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