fruit arboriculture training
Gain expertise in fruit arboriculture focused on apples, pears, and cherries. The course teaches efficient training systems, detailed pruning schedules tailored to each orchard block, and strategies to increase yields, improve fruit quality, optimize labor and machinery use, and ensure worker safety in contemporary commercial fruit farming operations. It equips you with practical skills for sustainable and profitable orchard management.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course offers hands-on guidance for setting up effective training systems for apples, pears, and cherries. You will learn to select rootstocks, determine spacing, and shape canopies based on local climate and farm setup. It covers creating pruning schedules, enhancing yields and fruit quality, reducing labor costs through mechanization, and combining pruning with watering, feeding, pest management, and safety measures to ensure steady, profitable harvests.
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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 specific to each fruit block.
- Perform precise pruning to build canopy structure, control tree vigor, and refresh fruiting wood.
- Integrate pruning into IPM by coordinating canopy management with sprays, irrigation, and nutrition.
- Optimize labor efficiency and safety through better harvest practices, mechanization, and worker protection.
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