fruit arboriculture training
Gain expertise in fruit arboriculture focusing on apples, pears, and cherries. The course teaches efficient training systems, detailed pruning schedules for each orchard block, and strategies to increase yields, improve fruit quality, optimise labour and mechanisation, while ensuring worker safety in commercial fruit farming operations.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course offers hands-on guidance to create effective training systems for apples, pears, and cherries. You will learn to select rootstocks, determine spacing, and design canopy structures suited to local climate and farm setup. It covers planning pruning schedules, enhancing yields and fruit quality, reducing labour costs through mechanisation, and combining pruning with irrigation, fertilisation, pest management, and safety measures for reliable profits.
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Develop skills
- Design training systems by matching rootstocks, planting density, and climate for maximum yields.
- Plan pruning calendars with scheduled cuts, tying, and wood renewal for every fruit block.
- Perform accurate pruning to build canopy structure, control tree vigour, and refresh fruiting wood.
- Combine pruning with integrated pest management, including canopy adjustments, sprays, watering, and feeding.
- Improve labour efficiency and safety through better harvest methods, mechanisation, and worker protection.
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