309712 (v.2) Advanced Horticultural Technologies 402

Area:	Department of Agribusiness
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	7.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11402 (v.5) Introduction to Wine Marketing and Business 201 or any previous version OR 303324 (v.3) Food and Agribusiness Marketing 201 or any previous version
Syllabus:	This unit provides students with a working background of new technologies associated with horticulture. The course emphasises new production technologies for intensive horticultural production including protected cropping systems, environmental control, soil-less growing systems, integrated pest and disease control systems, mulches, organic and biodynamic crop production systems, sustainable production systems and life cycles, genomics and precision horticulture. Includes the application of technology inAustralia and internationally, ethics of the technology and supply chain, and business and policy considerations. Case studies are used extensively.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	059999 Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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