Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package

 

The Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package covers industry sectors including: 

  • Animal Production
  • Dairying
  • Shearing
  • Rural Business Management
  • Production Horticulture
  • Floriculture
  • Landscaping
  • Retail and Production Nursery
  • Conservation Earthworks
  • Natural Area Restoration
  • Bee Keeping
  • Weed Management
  • Community Coordination and Facilitation
  • Broadacre Cropping
  • Irrigation
  • Wool Harvesting and Wool Classing
  • Rural Merchandising
  • Mushroom Production
  • Arboriculture
  • Parks and Gardens
  • Turf Management
  • Indigenous Land Management
  • Lands, Parks and Wildlife
  • Vertebrate Pest Management
  • Commercial Composting


The current Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management, AHC10 Version 2, was endorsed by the National Quality Council (NQC) in April 2011 and published on the National Training Information Service (NTIS) website on 10 June 2011.

AHC10 Version 2.1 was published on Training.gov.au on 20 October 2011 following an ISC Upgrade. The following qualifications were modified:

  • AHC20110 Certificate II in Agriculture - packaging rules modified to provide greater flexibility
  • AHC20710 Certificate II in Production Nursery - typographical error in description corrected
  • AHC30110 Certificate III in Agriculture - packaging rules modified to provide greater flexibility 
  • AHC33311 Certificate III in Feedlot Operations - typographical errors in description corrected
     

Endorsed Materials

Updated Mapping Material

Errors have been noted in the AHC10 mapping for Machinery Operation and Maintenance.  The correct mapping can be downloaded here.  Updated mapping will be published with the release of AHC10v3.

 

Superseded Materials

NTIS is now offline and material from superseded Training Packages is not available on its replacement, TGA. Follow the links below for superseded material related to the AHC10 Training Package.

 

Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Continuous Improvement Projects

AgriFood Skills Australia continues to work with industry to simplify the structure and increase the level of flexibility within AgriFood Training Packages, to respond to the evolving nature of job roles within the industry.

Click on the links below for further information about Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Continuous Improvement Projects.


Background Information

The AHC10 Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package is the result of merging three Training Packages and orphaned common units:

  • RTD02 Conservation and Land Management
  • RTE03 Rural Production 
  • RTF03 Amenity Horticulture
  • ZZZ00 RTC common units


During 2006 AgriFood Skills Australia conducted a feasibility study to investigate the potential of merging the three Training Packages into one. The subsequent outcome of the study was AgriFood Board’s approval to merge the Training Packages.

From the beginning of the project the concerns of the wide and varied stakeholder groups were considered to be the major focus of achieving the merged Training Package.  In regard to the stakeholder needs it was clear that the Qualification framework in particular and the packaging rules would need to cater for the diverse sectors.

Significant design work was undertaken to confirm a model for the Qualifications that were identified for the merged package.

At the same time as the initial project work began to merge the packages, the Training Package Review Phase 1 reports were completed for the three packages.

Another complication for the merged package was the requirement to respond to a number of national project findings related to improving the understanding and application of the products developed under the banner of Training Packages.

AgriFood considered a number of options and adopted the decision to ‘go bold’ with a strategy to:

  • improve the clarity of competency standards
  • increase the flexibility and job related outcomes with Qualifications
  • develop a model to support Training Package implementation.


As a consequence the project initiatives shifted the focus from the endorsed components of the Training Package to include implementation products and systems as a means to improve the outcomes of industry training requirements.

The AHC10 Training Package is the result of this intensive focus to consolidate the package to represent a “fit for purpose” Training Package that is well positioned to accommodate appropriate continuous improvement into the future.

The endorsement of the AHC10 Training Package that incorporates contemporary design is just one of the key outcomes of this project.  The most significant achievement is the shift in thinking by many stakeholders to include a wider range of issues when they are considering the needs of industry relating to Training Packages.