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Unit Code: AEG312

Unit Name: Farm Machinery Management

Description: The unit will introduce students to traditional hand tools and animal power in Fiji, appropriate technology and mechanization, and the associated gender, social, environmental, economic and sustainability issues. The students will gain a general understanding of the purpose, process and operating principles of tractors and agricultural machinery. The students will develop operational and basic maintenance skills for agricultural machinery operations and basic workshop skills. Safety in tractor operation, tractor tests and performance; seed bed preparation, sowing, tillage implements, fertilizer application, harvesting machine, spraying and dusting eqipments, farm machinery selection, farm safety and OH &S.

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Prerequisite: N/A

Prerequisite Sentence: Student must be enrolled in the programme.

Credit Point: 10

Offered In: Semester 1