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Curriculum topics include:
Basic Education, Life Skills and Arts
- Applied Agricultural Mathematics
- English
- First Aid, HIV and Aids
- Environmental Education
- Labour law, teamwork and behaviour at the workplace, CV writing and job application
- Communication skills
- Goals in life; decision making
- Theatre, choir, and eurhythmy
Cosmos and Farm:
- Relationships and interdependencies of economical, ecological, and social aspects in an agricultural environment
- The farm: an organism embedded in wholes to be able to live and grow in balance.
Horticulture
- Production of vegetables, herbs and grains according to organic and bio-dynamic production principles
- Organic pest, disease & weed management
- Plant nutrition, Intercropping, crop rotation
- Compost making, mulching, green manuring,
- Propagation, transplanting & direct seeding methods
- Packaging, processing & interaction with various points in the value chain
- Horticultural record keeping
- Organic certification processes
Livestock
- Theoretical background and practical experiences with beef cattle, dairy cows, sheep, horses, chickens.
- Animal husbandry, care, handling, anatomy and physiology, basic diseases.
- Management principles in livestock farming, including reproduction and breeding, productivity, breeds, efficiency, adaptation and adaptability, economic viability, marketable products.
- Bee keeping
Game
- Introduction to game farming and game species
- Basic weapon handling
Soil Science
- Basic soil types in Namibia, characteristics and nutrient availability, relationship to plant growth, animal performance and efficiency of rainfall.
- The four ecosystem processes (water and mineral cycle, energy flow, community dynamics)
- Soil erosion and bush encroachment
Rangeland Management
- Botany; main species of grasses, shrubs, trees in central Namibia
- Effect and impact of different rangeland management principles on soil, soil surface and plant growth.
- Basic principles in rangeland management: relationship of grazing management and growth, overgrazing and overresting, animal impact, effect of time, effect of numbers
- Different grazing systems in Namibia and their effects
Technology
- Basics in handling, maintenance and repair of equipment and tools on a farm: workshop, fencing, infrastructure, borehole and water, vehicles and machinery, engines, fire fighting, buildings.
Economics
- Basic PC-literacy (Word, Excel, Internet)
- Basic record and book keeping
- Basic principles of financial planning
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