Course description
A course designed to improve your professional skills and broaden your job opportunities.
Why enrol on this course?
Who can take this course?
Employed, self-employed or unemployed people who want to improve their skills.
Free course
Subsidised training, at no cost to the student.
Online course
Study from home with a flexible format.
Certified course
When you finish you will be able to certify the training you have completed.
Course content
1. INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF SOIL AND FERTILISATION.
1.1. Soil-plant relationships and the rhizosphere.
1.2. Plant nutrition.
1.3. Soil and microorganism identification.
2. TYPES OF FERTILISATION IN ORGANIC FARMING.
2.1. Importance of organic fertilisers.
2.2. Properties of organic fertilisers.
2.3. Types of organic fertilisers.
2.4. Humic amendments.
2.5. Amino acids.
3. COMPOSTING TECHNIQUES.
3.1. Main systems and materials to compost.
3.2. Carbon/nitrogen ratio.
3.3. Possible problems and solutions.
4. FACTORS AFFECTING COMPOST PRODUCTION.
4.1. Temperature.
4.2. Moisture.
4.3. pH.
4.4. Oxygen.
4.5. Balanced C/N ratio.
4.6. Microbial population.
5. TYPES OF COMPOST.
5.1. Weed compost.
5.2. Plant material with manure.
5.3. Quick-return compost.
5.4. Compost activated with brewer's yeast.
6. THE COMPOSTING PROCESS AND COMPOST MANAGEMENT.
6.1. Mesophilic phase.
6.2. Thermophilic phase.
6.3. Cooling phase.
6.4. Maturation phase.
7. REGULATIONS ON COMPOSTING PROCESSES
7.1. Raw materials; scope: source collection of organic matter from different origins.
7.2. Process control.
7.3. Technical requirements for facilities.
7.4. Compost classes (stability, sanitisation, impurities, metals and other potentially toxic substances, agronomic value).
7.5. Analytical control and analysis methods.
7.6. Quality assurance through labelling.
7.7. Restrictions on the use of lower-quality compost / application control.
1.1. Soil-plant relationships and the rhizosphere.
1.2. Plant nutrition.
1.3. Soil and microorganism identification.
2. TYPES OF FERTILISATION IN ORGANIC FARMING.
2.1. Importance of organic fertilisers.
2.2. Properties of organic fertilisers.
2.3. Types of organic fertilisers.
2.4. Humic amendments.
2.5. Amino acids.
3. COMPOSTING TECHNIQUES.
3.1. Main systems and materials to compost.
3.2. Carbon/nitrogen ratio.
3.3. Possible problems and solutions.
4. FACTORS AFFECTING COMPOST PRODUCTION.
4.1. Temperature.
4.2. Moisture.
4.3. pH.
4.4. Oxygen.
4.5. Balanced C/N ratio.
4.6. Microbial population.
5. TYPES OF COMPOST.
5.1. Weed compost.
5.2. Plant material with manure.
5.3. Quick-return compost.
5.4. Compost activated with brewer's yeast.
6. THE COMPOSTING PROCESS AND COMPOST MANAGEMENT.
6.1. Mesophilic phase.
6.2. Thermophilic phase.
6.3. Cooling phase.
6.4. Maturation phase.
7. REGULATIONS ON COMPOSTING PROCESSES
7.1. Raw materials; scope: source collection of organic matter from different origins.
7.2. Process control.
7.3. Technical requirements for facilities.
7.4. Compost classes (stability, sanitisation, impurities, metals and other potentially toxic substances, agronomic value).
7.5. Analytical control and analysis methods.
7.6. Quality assurance through labelling.
7.7. Restrictions on the use of lower-quality compost / application control.