School centre Šentjur

Šentjur

Agricultural enterprise technician

Slovenian

4

I-VET

Formal

Agri-business technicians are trained in different areas of agriculture to enable them to plan, manage, monitor and carry out work independently in crop and livestock production and complementary activities. They also acquire entrepreneurial skills during their training. Agribusiness technicians can be employed on farms, estates, agricultural cooperatives, shops, rural development agencies, garden centres, etc.

agriculture, entropeneurial skills, farm business

N/a

Vocational matura certificate

2022-09-01

4 years

entrepreneurial skills, planning, managing a farm, crop and livestock production, complementary activities

agricultural business

Elementary school education or lower vocational education

Certificate holders will be able to: plan and organise work on an agricultural holding relative to the existing conditions, and taking account of agricultural legislation and the principles of sustainable development, lead and monitor work in plant and animal production and supplementary activities, implement work in plant and animal production and supplementary activities while observing environmental protection, recognise the causes of signs of disease and damage on plants, and select appropriate measures and provide protection, safely use and handle harmful and hazardous substances and waste from agricultural production and animal rearing, and prevent environmental pollution, safely use agricultural machinery, equipment and tools and provide basic maintenance for them, harvest and store agricultural products, provide advice in procuring and selling agricultural crops, products, services and semi-products for the requirements of agricultural production and animal rearing, make a simple business plan for agricultural production and make calculations, market agricultural crops, products and services, perform work independently, accurately and responsibly, cooperate in a group and communicate in writing and orally with co-workers, experts and clients, using the basic professional terminology in the field of agriculture, communicate with co-workers, clients and others in organising work, carrying out specific tasks and solving problems, use modern information and communication technology to communicate and to plan and organise cost-effective work and work procedures in the professional field, protect and rationally use natural energy sources and raw materials, Elective: cultivating and tending field crops and vegetables, domestic animal husbandry and preparation of animals and animal products for processing and sale, cultivating and tending grapevines and grape processing, cultivating and tending fruit plants, maintaining and ensuring upkeep of the natural landscape. Certificate holders supplement their key vocational knowledge and abilities with key general knowledge in line with national standards.