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AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Identify, benchmark, and analyse high
performance in agribusiness
productivity
level:
5
credit:
10
planned review date:
April 2009
sub-field:
Agriculture
replacement information:
This unit standard replaced unit standard 11850.
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify
producers with high performance in agribusiness
productivity, benchmark with a specified agribusiness, and
identify areas for improvement in the specified agribusiness;
identify and analyse strategies contributing to high
performance in agribusiness productivity.
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 moderation system has
been set up by the Primary Industry Training Organisation.
special notes:
Definitions
High performance – an agribusiness with at least upper
quartile performance for the district which includes output
and costs of production.
Performance areas may include but are not limited to
production units for – meat, fibre, milk, velvet or grain, quality
of production, return on investment.
Agribusiness productivity – the balanced, sustainable
relationship between input and outputs to achieve maximum
return.
Optimum potential for the district is defined by a wide variety
of factors which may include but are not limited to – resource
use and production units for example meat, fibre, milk, velvet
or grain.
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Identify producers with high performance in agribusiness productivity, benchmark with a
specified agribusiness, and identify areas for improvement in the specified agribusiness.
Range:
benchmark on the basis of – outputs, costs of production.
performance criteria
1.1
Key performance indicators (KPIs) for production are identified for a specific
agricultural industry.
1.2
Producers are identified in terms of those with high performance in productivity
in specified areas of the agricultural industry.
1.3
Performance of a specified agribusiness is benchmarked with similar producers
with high performance in productivity, and areas for improvement in the
agribusiness identified.
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element 2
Identify and analyse strategies contributing to high performance in agribusiness
productivity.
performance criteria
2.1
Physical and financial managerial strategies are identified and analysed to
determine their contribution to superior agribusiness production performance.
Range:
2.2
Technology is identified and analysed to determine its contribution to high
performance in productivity.
Range:
2.3
physical managerial strategies include but are not limited to –
altering stocking replacement rate, resource use, timing of
operations, feed budgeting, stock management strategies,
monitoring stock condition and growth rates, pasture growth
manipulation, use of alternative feeds, use of alternative feeding
systems, use of additives, integrated approach to feeding
management, decision making, forward planning;
financial managerial strategies include but are not limited to –
policy setting, expenditure control, forward planning, cost benefit
analysis.
technology includes but is not limited to – specialised agricultural
computer software, machinery, stock weighing systems, pasture
assessing tools, soil testing, farm drainage systems, mechanised
or automated systems.
Analysis includes an explanation of the role of monitoring in refinement of high
performance in productivity.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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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.
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 0052 which can be accessed at
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/site/framework/search.html.
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