Learn different methods of plant protection:

• Sanitation – maintaining good hygiene
• Physical control methods e.g. mowing, slashing, burning, flooding, hand removal, physical barriers (ie. netting, fences), etc.
• Using plant varieties that are resistant to pests and diseases
• Biological controls
• Chemical controls (artificial and naturally derived).
• Soil drenches/dips

Course Aims:

• Identify the broad category which a plant health problem belongs to.
• Explain a range of methods for controlling plant problems.
• Select appropriate chemical pesticides for different problems.
• Identify the symptoms of different plant diseases, including most common and some uncommon problems, in your locality.
• Develop procedures to control specific plant diseases.
• Identify different insects, including significant taxonomic orders, common pest species, and some less common pest species
• Determine appropriate methods to control different types of insects.
• Identify different non-insect pests found in the learner’s locality.
• Determine appropriate control methods for different non-insect pests.
• Identify different non-insect pests found in the learner’s locality.
• Determine appropriate control methods for different non-insect pests.
• Manage the control of different types of weed problems.