Overview
About this Course:
Control techniques and safety are both covered in detail. A course for technicians, gardeners and horticulturalists that need to know in detail horticultural pest and disease identification and control, with chemical and biological solutions and safety procedures and practices.
The first step in knowing how to control a pest, disease or weed is to be able to identify it AND the plant which it is affecting accurately.
If you get the identification wrong, the method of control is likely to be inappropriate.Identification in fact is the foundation of effective problem control.
This Plant Protection course from Warnborough College provides a unique and systematic approach to plant protection, drawing on input from our horticultural experts in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It is unlike other plant protection courses in terms of it’s international approach. This allows you to benefit from a more diverse range of experts (and their diverse experiences); something that is not often found in other schools.
Protect your plants using appropriate pest, disease and weed control techniques – a detailed course for horticulturists, technicians and also for enthusiastic gardeners.
Understanding the life cycles of insects and weeds and learning how to identify them is important in the protect of plants from disease and insect and the spread of weed species. This course shows you how to identify diseases, insects and weeds, understand their life-cycles and select and use appropriate treatments. Control techniques are covered in detail using chemical and biological solutions along with safety procedures and practices.
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- Control Techniques – natural & chemical.
- Chemicals – characteristics.
- Identifying Diseases – symptoms, fungi and viruses, and other pathogens.
- Disease Control – life cycle of fungi.
- Insect Classification and biology.
- Insect Control – how to control pests.
- Other Pests – nematodes, snails, millipedes.
- Weed Identification and chemical control.
- Non-chemical Weed Control.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Agriculture Horticulture and Crop Science Botany View 110 other Short Courses in Botany in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
Tuition Fee
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International
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.