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Available courses

FARM STRUCTURES

COURSE CONTENT

Structures: Fences, milking parlours, Animal housing and handling structures, storage structures, Farm buildings and layout. Types, classification and design considerations; greenhouses, hotbeds, tunnels, storage structures-environmental principles of crop storage, pack houses, cold houses, refrigerated trucks. Building loads: dead, live, wind and seismic. Failures in farm buildings. Site selection and structures orientation. Building materials: wood, stone, earth, concrete, metal, glass, plastic, rubber, bituminous product, paint, glass fibre and non-conventional materials. Greenhouse construction, Benching systems. Basics of solar radiation, Glazing material, greenhouse lighting, basics of heat transfer, heating, heat circulation in greenhouses, Humidity and Psychometric chart. Ventilation and shading. Cooling. Climate regulation and methods of measuring climatic factors. CO2 enrichment, computerization and automation of greenhouses.

FARM MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENTS

This unit describes the competencies required by an Agricultural Machinery & Equipment Mechatronics   Craftsperson in order to apply a wide range of skills in repairing agricultural mechatronics machinery at their work. It involves diagnosing faulty parts, removing faulty agricultural mechatronics component, replacing agricultural mechatronics component, configuring agricultural mechatronics component, calibrating agricultural mechatronics component, testing agricultural mechatronics systems and writing technical report