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Plan, establish, manage, and evaluate fruit and vegetable crop research
programmes
Level
7
Credits
18
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who are currently working, or who intend to
work, in jobs which involve the planning and implementation of fruit and
vegetable crop research programmes.
People credited with this unit standard are able to plan fruit and vegetable
crop research programmes, and establish and manage fruit and vegetable
crop trials. They will also be able to complete and evaluate fruit and
vegetable crop trials.
Subfield
Food and Related Products Processing
Domain
Food and Related Product Development
Status
Registered
Status date
21 September 2007
Date version published
21 September 2007
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz (Food and Beverage)
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0111
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Legislation relevant to this unit standard may include but is not limited to the: Health
and Safety in Employment Act 1992; Health and Safety in Employment Regulations
1995; Food Act 1981; Food Hygiene Regulations 1974; Food (Safety) Regulations
2002; Resource Management Act 1991; and their associated regulations and
subsequent amendments.
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Related products may include: beverages, household products, or personal care
products.
3
Definitions
Organisational procedures refer to documents that include: worksite rules, codes,
and practices; equipment operating instructions; production specifications;
documented quality management systems; and health and safety requirements.
Crops refers to any fruit and/or vegetable;
Programmes refer to: long-term, short-term; trials; wide variation?, variety
improvement, irrigation management, fertiliser, pest, weed control, fungicidal;
coordinated.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Plan fruit and vegetable crop research programmes.
Performance criteria
1.1
Fruit and vegetable crop research programmes are planned to take account of
short-term objectives and long-term goals.
1.2
Planned fruit and vegetable crop research programmes are supportive of
research continuity and build on previous research findings.
1.3
Resources required for fruit and vegetable crop research programmes are
identified, authorised, and are allocated within a timeframe that optimises
programme implementation.
Range
resources – physical, human, financial.
1.4
Design of fruit and vegetable crop research programme is accurate, complete,
and includes field and factory trial design and methodologies.
1.5
Measurement criteria for fruit and vegetable crop research programmes are
included in programme design.
1.6
Constraints to fruit and vegetable crop research programmes are identified, and
solutions are developed to optimise performance.
Range
1.7
constraints – climate; availability and/or performance of
equipment, product, personnel budget.
Interested parties supportive of fruit and vegetable crop research programmes
are canvassed for complementary input and information.
Range
interested parties – internal and external customers; other
research organisations, field departments, cooperative
organisations: suppliers of pesticides, weed control products.
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1.8
Documentation related to planning of fruit and vegetable crop research
programmes is accurate and complete in accordance with operating
procedures.
1.9
Fruit and vegetable crop research programme planning complies with
organisational policies, procedures, and legislation.
Range
policies and procedures – manuals and/or systems and
procedures and/or quality standards.
Element 2
Establish and manage fruit and vegetable crop trials.
Performance criteria
2.1
Reason for fruit and vegetable crop trial is established, and is consistent with
research programme design.
2.2
Fruit and vegetable crop trial is integrated with complementary internal and
external research programmes.
2.3
Site selected for fruit and vegetable crop trial reflects realistic crop growth
environment and causes minimal impact on trial host.
Range
2.4
trial host – grower, sponsor, laboratory.
Fruit and vegetable crop trial site is controlled and protects trial from accidental
adverse influences.
Range
adverse influences – sprays of pesticides, fungicides and other
chemicals outside control specifications; damage from vehicles,
pests; unscheduled harvesting.
2.5
Fruit and vegetable crop trial is ecologically and environmentally sound and
maximises output from given area of land.
2.6
Costs involved with running crop fruit and vegetable crop trial are minimised.
2.7
Potential problems in establishing and managing fruit and vegetable crop trials
are identified, and solutions implemented optimise trial performance and results.
Range
2.8
potential problems – weather, resources.
Documentation related to establishment and management of fruit and vegetable
crop trial is accurate and complete in accordance with organisational
procedures.
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2.9
Fruit and vegetable crop trial establishment and management complies with
organisational policies, procedures, and legislation.
Range
policies and procedures – systems and operating procedures
and/or quality standards.
Element 3
Complete and evaluate fruit and vegetable crop trials.
Performance criteria
3.1
Fruit and vegetable crop trial crop is harvested in a quantity and at a time likely
to produce meaningful results that are consistent with trial expectations.
3.2
Fruit and vegetable crop trial results are compared against known benchmarks,
and results are recorded.
3.3
Evaluation of fruit and vegetable crop trial results is consistent with research
programme design, and identifies research end point.
3.4
Fruit and vegetable crop trial results that are within defined parameters,
statistically robust, and add value to overall research programme, are attained
from trial within agreed timeframe.
3.5
Findings and recommendations from fruit and vegetable crop trial evaluation are
complete, in agreed format, and communicated with interested parties within
agreed timeframe.
3.6
Opportunities for improvement in design, implementation, and management of
fruit and vegetable crop trials are identified, and actioned prior to next trial
commencement.
3.7
Evaluation of fruit and vegetable crop trial complies with organisational policies,
procedures, and legislation.
Range
policies and procedures – work instructions and/or manuals and/or
operating procedures and/or quality standards.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, 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 NZQA 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 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 Competenz qualifications@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest
changes to the content of this unit standard.
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