horticulture production manager
Code 6113.2
Horticulture production managers plan the production, manage the enterprise and participate in the horticultural production.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- plant disease control
- quality criteria for storage facilities
- plant species
- soil structure
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- plant propagation
- health and safety regulations
- fertilisation principles
- project management principles
- horticulture principles
- crop production principles
- leadership principles
- budgetary principles
- watering principles
- plant harvest methods
- pest control in plants
- types of storage facilities
- greenhouse types
- pruning types
- pruning techniques
Skills and competences
- store crops
- store products
- coordinate greenhouse environment
- harvest crop
- grow plants
- develop agricultural production plans
- create soil and plant improvement programmes
- execute disease and pest control activities
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
- ensure soil fertility
- maintain plant soil nutrition
- maintain storage facilities
- operate horticulture equipment
- optimise production
- prune plants
- maintain plant health
- propagate plants
- monitor fields
- supervisar la producción de cultivos
- make independent operating decisions
- use agricultural information systems and databases
Transversal competences
- manage production enterprise
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