First Nations Institute Australia (FNIA)
Plant Health Short Course
Self Paced 20-hour course to help you understand more about Plant Health.
Managing plant health is a three step process: recognising a pest or disease challenge, identifying the cause, and taking the right actions to tackle the challenge. always seems that the more work you do in a garden, the more pest and disease problems seem to appear. For this reason, the keen home gardener and the professional landscaper need to be aware about what pests and diseases they may come in contact with, and how to control them.
This Study Guide will help the keen home gardener or graduate landscaper to identify the most common pest and disease problems, and take action.
This course has a particular emphasis on caring for our environment through sustainable land management, farming, and horticultural practices. That includes reducing the use of chemicals, and makes it even more important that the cause of a problem is correctly identified first time.
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
