INTEC Farming for Smallholders Short Course Certificate

Course details

Learn how to farm and you could become self-sufficient and perhaps earn an extra income. Have you thought of growing something on your smallholding or even the vacant patch of land behind your house? This course gives you simple, yet effective farming techniques that have been specifically developed for Southern African conditions. You don't need acres of land and expensive machinery - whether you want to cultivate a variety of crops, keep some animals or start a small vegetable garden, this course will show you exactly what to do and how to do it.

Course Content

• Providing crops with what is needed: Water and nutrients, evaluating and improving your soil, fertilisers, synthetic and yard manure, compost.
• Your vegetable farm: Crop rotation, planting, early and late crops, irrigation.
• Your orchard & flower farm: Planting, developing and maintaining fruit trees.
• Protecting and storing your crop: Spraying and powdering against insects and parasites.
• Animal husbandry: Tips on raising animals on a smallholding.
• Farming specific vegetables and fruit: Carrots, beans, lettuce, asparagus, loganberries and raspberries.
• Farming bees for profit: Look at the various kinds of bees and how to start your first hive.
• Farming herbs: Preparing the soil and drying herbs.
• Bookkeeping: Specific accounting methods for managing a smallholding.
• Basic marketing and marketing tools: The basics of producing, selling, creating new markets and finding new clients