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HORTICULTURE RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT
Determine horticulture operation water
requirements and oversee appropriate
systems
level:
5
credit:
6
planned review date:
June 2008
sub-field:
Horticulture
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard will be able to –
calculate specimen, crop, and total operation water
requirements; select sources and mechanisms for the
provision, application, and removal of water; and oversee the
installation, operation, and maintenance of water systems.
entry information:
Open, but it is recommended that skill and knowledge in the
installation and operation of water systems be obtained
before credit is sought for this unit standard.
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:
None.
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Identify water requirements for a given horticulture operation.
performance criteria
1.1
Assessment, using industry accepted criteria, identifies water requirements for
individual specimens and crops on site.
Range:
1.2
Assessment, using industry accepted criteria, identifies other operational and
non-operational water requirements for the site.
Range:
1.3
application rates required; seasonal and daily timing of
applications; total volumes required daily, seasonally, and
annually.
seasonal and daily timing of demand; type of demand; total
volumes required daily, seasonally, and annually; access; plant
health; frost protection.
Total operation water requirements are identified in a format suitable for
application for use under the Resource Management Act 1991.
element 2
Determine water source.
performance criteria
2.1
Procedures adopted to select water sources evaluate options against industry
accepted criteria.
Range:
2.2
volume available, possible flow rates, quality, access duration,
access and establishment costs, operational costs, reliability.
Selected sources provide water as required to meet operational needs on the
most favourable cost and benefit basis.
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element 3
Select water provision and distribution options.
performance criteria
3.1
Assessment of water provision options against identified requirements enables
selection of most effective source.
Range:
3.2
flow rates required, duration of maximum draw-off, supply
recovery rate, operational pressures required.
Distribution option selected complies with capacity requirements and provides
most effective option against cost and benefit criteria.
Range:
establishment costs, operational costs, maintenance costs,
effective life, reliability.
element 4
Select application mechanisms.
performance criteria
4.1
Procedures used to select application mechanisms assess options against
performance required to meet specimen and crop needs.
Range:
4.2
type and point of application, rate of application, timing of
application, control requirements.
Options selected provide most effective solution against cost and benefit
criteria.
Range:
establishment costs, operational costs, maintenance costs,
application efficiency, reliability, operational life.
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element 5
Select drainage systems.
performance criteria
5.1
Procedures adopted to assess needs for removal of water identify factors which
will determine drainage requirements.
Range:
natural and artificial application rates, soil and sub-soil water
retention characteristics, land configuration, disposal and outfall
access, crop tolerances, seasonal variations.
5.2
Drainage requirements are presented in format suitable for application for
discharge consent under the Resource Management Act 1991.
5.3
Selection of drainage system meets water removal requirements and provides
most favourable solution against cost-benefit criteria.
Range:
establishment costs, operational costs, maintenance costs,
effective life, reliability.
element 6
Oversee the installation, operation, and maintenance of systems.
performance criteria
6.1
Installation of water provision, application, and removal systems are monitored
to ensure work is completed in accordance with specifications, and operational
systems perform to design requirements.
6.2
Operation and maintenance of installed water systems facilitate achievement of
system design capabilities and efficient provision of horticulture operation
requirements.
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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.
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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