Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
AHCPCM301A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Implement a plant nutrition program
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
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Unit of Competency | AHCPCM301A - Implement a plant nutrition program |
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Description | This unit covers the process of implementing a plant nutrition program in the horticultural or agricultural industry and defines the standard required to: recognise a range of common causes of nutrient deficiency; prepare fertilizers and other products for application to plants; apply fertilizers and other products; clean up and maintain tools and equipment; record work activities according to enterprise guidelines. | ||
Employability Skills | This unit contains employability skills. | ||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit applies to the process of monitoring and controlling the nutritional requirements of and applications to plants in the horticulture industries across a range of situations and environments including amenity and natural resource areas. This standard involves working under limited supervision from others, with checking only related to overall progress. Work is undertaken within a program, routines, methods and procedures where some discretion and judgement is required in the selection of equipment and materials, organisation of work, services, actions, and the achievement of outcomes within time and budgetary constraints. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Prepare for implementation of the plant nutrition program |
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Element: Monitor soil pH |
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Element: Determine nutritional problems in plants |
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Element: Prepare to use fertilisers |
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Element: Prepare application equipment |
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Element: Apply specific products at appropriate rates |
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