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Demonstrate knowledge of the production horticulture industry in New
Zealand
Level
3
Credits
5
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working, or intending to work, in horticulture.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify significant
production horticulture areas in New Zealand; identify horticultural servicing
organisations; explain reasons why horticulture crops are grown in a specific
area; and demonstrate knowledge of a horticulture crop grown in New
Zealand.
Subfield
Horticulture
Domain
Production Horticulture
Status
Registered
Status date
25 July 2006
Date version published
25 July 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2011
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0032
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
None.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Identify significant production horticulture areas in New Zealand.
Performance criteria
1.1
Horticultural areas producing commercial fruit crops are identified, and types of
fruit are listed for each region.
Range
1.2
Horticultural areas producing commercial vegetable crops are identified, and
kinds of vegetables are listed for each area.
Range
1.3
potatoes, brassicas, salad vegetables, alliums, cucurbits, corn,
greenhouse tomatoes, outdoor tomatoes, carrots, kumara.
Horticultural areas producing commercial cut flower and foliage crops are
identified, and kinds of flowers or foliage are listed for each area.
Range
1.4
pip fruit, stone fruit, citrus, grapes, kiwifruit, berryfruit, subtropicals.
roses, leucodendrons, proteas, gypsophila, orchids, gentiana,
paeonies, sandersonia, zantedeschia.
Horticultural areas important to the nursery industry are identified, and kinds of
crops are listed for each area.
Range
bedding plants, vegetable plants, fruit trees, deciduous trees,
evergreen trees, perennials, main retail garden centres, indoor
plants.
Element 2
Identify horticultural servicing organisations.
Performance criteria
2.1
Main marketing systems are described in terms of crops handled and
distributed.
Range
2.2
marketing boards, auction, contract sales, direct sales.
Local sources of supply are listed for a range of horticulture material and
equipment.
Range
two agencies for each of the following – agrichemicals, safety
equipment, fertilisers, machinery and equipment, packaging
materials.
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2.3
Horticulture organisations are listed with a description of their functions.
Range
three examples of each of the following – advisory, research and
training.
Element 3
Explain reasons why horticulture crops are grown in a specific area.
Range
any two of the following – pipfruit, grapes, potatoes, greenhouse tomatoes,
orchids, paeonies.
Performance criteria
3.1
Environmental factors are identified for optimum crop production for each crop.
3.2
Marketing systems are outlined for each crop.
3.3
Management factors are outlined for each crop.
Range
staffing, servicing, consultancy, packaging, transport.
Element 4
Demonstrate knowledge of a horticulture crop grown in New Zealand.
Range
one of the following – apples, kiwifruit, greenhouse tomatoes, onions, kumara,
orchids, roses, grapes.
Performance criteria
4.1
Horticulture production statistics are sourced.
Range
national export and local market earnings, number of people
employed, area in crop production, percentage of total horticulture
production.
4.2
Production schedule is described including main seasonal operations.
4.3
Marketing of the exported crop is described from the time it leaves the property
to its market destinations.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, or an inter-institutional body
with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report 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.
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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 organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation via their website
www.primaryito.ac.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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