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  2. Agricultural Technology and Innovation [KLA316]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston Student elective
    The unit explores theoretical and practical technologies and innovations applicable to extensive and intensive animal and plant production systems. These technologies and innovations address current productivity and sustainability challenges and include topics such as precision farming and spray technologies, communication and decision support technologies, carbon, water and irrigation management....

  3. Animal Production Systems [KLA120]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston Student elective
    This unit provides an overview of the major Tasmanian animal production systems and how they fit within the broader Australian and worldwide contexts. Students use systems thinking to explore the variety of strategies that growers use meet their production targets and explore the impact of grower management decisions along the value chain. These include decisions around production intensification,...

  4. Crop Production [KLA157]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston Student elective
    The unit provides students with an overview of intensive and extensive crop production and management. Study includes agro-ecological aspects of fruit, vegetable and grain crop production in Australia and the growth and development of the major crop species. Principles underlying canopy and nutrient management, flowering and fruit development, yield formation and crop regulation are examined. ...

  5. Farm Business Economics [KLA202]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston Student elective
    In this unit, students will develop an understanding of farming as a business. The unit will cover the application of economic principles to support management decisions of a farm business, specifically focusing on how land, labour and capital are used to attain the goals and aspirations of owners. Using case studies of farm businesses, students will use economic and financial techniques to...

  6. Farming Systems [KLA312]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston Student elective
    In this interdisciplinary unit, students explore systems approaches to farming, wherein understanding of various components of a farm is linked to broader social, cultural, political, institutional, economic and ecological factors that influence how a farm operates. The first partof the unit introduces students to systems thinking and systems practice in a farming context. Using local and...

  7. Food and Fibre Production in a Global Market [KLA100]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston Student elective
    Approximately two thirds of Australia's agricultural commodities are exported each year, generating $50 billion. This unit provides an understanding of historical developments, current status and future opportunities and challenges of the dominant agricultural and horticultural industries in Tasmania and Australia. Key factors involved in establishing new industries and the importance of...

  8. Honours A [KLA478]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast
    The Honours program enables students to develop independent research skills, project planning and management skills, high level verbal and written communication skills and subject specific knowledge in their chosen area of specialism. Students will be permitted to enrol in honours in Agricultural Science provided: (a) they have achieved an adequate standard, normally a credit average in group 3...

  9. Honours B [KLA479]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast
    The Honours program enables students to develop independent research skills, project planning and management skills, high level verbal and written communication skills and subject specific knowledge in their chosen area of specialism. Students will be permitted to enrol in honours in Agricultural Science provided: (a) they have achieved an adequate standard, normally a credit average in group 3...

  10. Honours C [KLA485]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast
    The Honours program enables students to develop independent research skills, project planning and management skills, high level verbal and written communication skills and subject specific knowledge in their chosen area of specialism. Students will be permitted to enrol in honours in Agricultural Science provided: (a) they have achieved an adequate standard, normally a credit average in group 3...

  11. Honours D [KLA486]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast
    The Honours program enables students to develop independent research skills, project planning and management skills, high level verbal and written communication skills and subject specific knowledge in their chosen area of specialism. Students will be permitted to enrol in honours in Agricultural Science provided: (a) they have achieved an adequate standard, normally a credit average in group 3...

  12. Sustainable Resource Management [KLA115]

    2023 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    The unit explores human population growth and the impending global food crisis by introducing agriculture as a managed ecosystem, from the earliest shifting cultivation systems to the most intensive systems currently practiced today. The ecological, economic and social sustainability of these systems is considered in relation to diversity, intensity of management and productivity. The unit...

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