Beekeeping as a business - PROfarm course
Course details
| Name: |
Beekeeping as a business |
| Description: |
A course designed to enable beekeepers to make the transition of keeping honey bees from a hobby to a business. |
| Cost: |
After NSW Government subsidy $420 GST incl. |
| Course aims: |
- To provide existing beekeepers with a knowledge base to expand their beekeeping into a business.
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| Learning outcomes: |
- Build the knowledge and skills necessary to embark on a commercial beekeeping business.
- Understand the limitations of commercial beekeeping.
- Develop a foundation to seek further information and advice necessary for a beekeeping enterprise.
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| Length: |
2 days |
| Course program/structure: |
Day 1
- Lifestyle considerations
- Health of operator
- Specialisation options; honey, pollination, queens, packages, pollen, organic etc
- Increasing hive numbers
- Maintaining hive numbers
- Site portfolio
- Systems for regions
- Management (nutrition and disease)
Day 2
- Plant, Equipment, Transport and QualityAssurance
- Tax and budgeting
- Markets
- Industry network
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| Resources and method of delivery: |
Participants receive course notes and manual.
This course is delivered using indoor and outdoor instruction. |
| Accreditation: |
This course has been mapped to the national units of competency:
- RTE3118A, RTE3131A, RTE3904A and RTE4121A.
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