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HORTICULTURE RESOURCES
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Determine specialist services required
for a horticulture operation and manage
use of those services
level:
6
credit:
4
planned review date:
June 2008
sub-field:
Horticulture
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard will be able to –
identify the nature and scope of specialist services required
to support a given horticulture operation; determine options
available for the provision of those services; select the most
appropriate
service
provider;
and
manage
their
establishment, operation, maintenance, and evaluation.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and
teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by the Primary Industry Training
Organisation.
special notes:
1
For the purposes of this unit standard, specialist
services are deemed to be those activities which
support the horticulture operation and may be provided
partly or wholly by specialists outside the operation.
2
Case studies may be used as the basis for this unit
standard.
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Identify services required by a defined horticulture operation.
performance criteria
1.1
Procedures adopted to assess service needs identify all functions which are
required to support the horticulture operation.
1.2
Definition of each service need provides a specification for the service required.
element 2
Identify service provision options.
performance criteria
2.1
Assessment of operation based resources against stated criteria identifies those
which can be used to meet service requirements internally.
Range:
2.2
training, experience, time available, currency of knowledge, backup equipment and information.
External individuals and organisations able to provide each of the services
required are identified, and particular features offered in the provision of that
service defined.
Range:
price,
experience,
professionalism.
reputation,
accessibility,
availability,
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element 3
Establish service provision.
performance criteria
3.1
Service provisions which best meet defined requirements are selected from
options considered.
Range:
ability, experience, availability, positive cost and benefit.
3.2
Strategies adopted to set up working relationships with service providers
establish effective communication and sound business practice.
3.3
Basis of service provision is clearly defined and is subject to planned evaluation
against criteria agreed by the parties involved.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Primary Industry Training Organisation http://www.primaryito.ac.nz if you
wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Please Note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated interinstitutional body before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards
or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
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Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for providers wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0032
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/site/framework/search.html.
which can
be
accessed at
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