fruit arboriculture training
Gain mastery in fruit arboriculture focusing on apples, pears, and cherries. The course covers training systems, pruning schedules, site-specific methods, and strategies to increase yields, improve fruit quality, boost labour efficiency, and ensure worker safety in contemporary commercial orchards. Ideal for orchard managers seeking sustainable production gains.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course offers hands-on, step-by-step advice on creating effective training systems for apples, pears, and cherries. You'll discover how to select rootstocks, spacing, and canopy designs suited to your climate and setup, develop pruning schedules, enhance yields and fruit quality, optimise labour and machinery use, and combine pruning with irrigation, nutrition, pest management, and worker safety for reliable, profitable results.
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Develop skills
- Design training systems by matching rootstocks, planting density, and climate for optimal yields.
- Plan pruning calendars, including timing for cuts, tying, and wood renewal across fruit blocks.
- Perform accurate pruning to build canopy structure, control vigour, and refresh fruiting wood.
- Integrate pruning with IPM, coordinating canopy management, sprays, irrigation, and nutrition.
- Optimise labour efficiency and safety through better harvest practices, mechanisation, and worker protection.
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