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Certificate III in Beekeeping - AHC31818
Tocal College
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS:
This qualification describes the skills and knowledge of a honey bee (Apis) beekeeper, including the establishment of beehives and apiaries, the transport of live bees and the management of bees for honey production and/or provision of pollination services.Legislation, regulations and by-laws relating to beehive ownership and biosecurity codes of practice apply in some states and territories.
Structure
- 16 units: 12 core
- 4 elective
Subjects
- Remove a honey crop from a hive
- Manage honey bee swarms
- Provide bee pollination services
- Implement the food safety program and procedures
- Trap and store pollen
- Manipulate honey bee brood
- Recognise plants
- Undertake marketing activities
- Process raw wax into moulds
- Respond to emergencies
- Extract honey
- Operate a creamed honey manufacture process
- Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
- Prepare and use a bee smoker
- Produce and harvest royal jelly
- Coordinate work site activities
- Participate in a HACCP team
- Apply sampling procedures
- Contribute to work health and safety processes
- Open and reassemble a beehive
- Transport farm produce or bulk materials
- Transport bee hives by road to new apiary site
- Collect and store propolis
- Select and establish an apiary site
- Manage pests and disease within a honey bee colony
- Licence to operate a forklift truck
- Rear queen bees
- Operate and maintain chainsaws
- Provide first aid
- Cost a project
- Operate a packaging process
- Assemble and maintain beekeeping components
- Handle bulk materials in storage area
- Re-queen a honey bee colony
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Perform queen bee artificial insemination
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