fruit arboriculture training
Gain expertise in fruit arboriculture focusing on apples, pears, and cherries. The course covers designing training systems, developing pruning schedules, implementing site-specific practices, and improving yields, fruit quality, labour efficiency, and worker safety in contemporary commercial orchards across Zambia.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course offers hands-on guidance for setting up effective training systems for apples, pears, and cherries. Participants will learn to select suitable rootstocks, determine optimal spacing and canopy designs based on local climate and facilities, create pruning schedules, enhance yields and fruit quality, optimise labour and machinery use, and combine pruning with irrigation, nutrition, pest management, and safety measures to achieve reliable, profitable results.
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Develop skills
- Design training systems by matching rootstocks, planting density, and climate for maximum yields.
- Develop pruning calendars with scheduled cuts, tying, and renewal for every orchard 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, irrigation, and nutrition.
- Enhance labour efficiency and safety through optimised harvesting, mechanisation, and worker protection.
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