BASIS - Advanced Module - Potatoes

This course is designed for professional consultants, advisers and representatives working in the crop protection industry. It will also be of value to managers of crop protection products, farmers with a large arable concern and those qualified for the BASIS Professional Register who want to extend and update their specialist knowledge or who wish to gain Continuing Professional Development Points. There is an examination to qualify towards the BASIS Advanced Certificate or the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy.

As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the requirements for growth, development and management of the potato crop.
• Make decisions that are agronomically, economically and environmentally sound.
• Gain Continuing Professional Development points.

Course content

• Soil types and site selection
• Fertilisers – practice and progress
• Crop establishment
• Crop protection including current developments
• Crop mechanisation
• Factory requirements for harvesting, handling and storage

Qualification

Successful examination qualifies one out of four modules required for the BASIS Advanced Certificate or the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy and the newly accredited Harper Adams University Graduate Diploma in Agronomy with Environmental Management. This course also accrues 30 Continuing Professional Development points.

Other advanced BASIS crop modules

• Plant Protection Award
• Biodiversity and Environmental Training for Advisers
• Soil and Water Management