Rural Advisers & Agencies Programme
Qualifications supporting safe and sustainable food production and environmental improvement
For more than 20 years Harper Adams has been delivering courses which help rural advisors and practitioners to gain essential in-service qualifications. The intention behind such qualifications is to ensure that potentially hazardous processes and products, such as agrochemicals, are stored and used safely and properly. Such qualifications also provide a key mechanism for improving the environmental impact of agricultural operations.
Harper Adams delivers a full range of courses to meet the requirements of the following industry bodies or awards:
- A range of Crop Protection awards validated by BASIS (the agrochemical industry's voluntary regulatory body)
- The Fertiliser Advisors Certification and Training Scheme (FACTS)
- Qualifications of the Animal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority (AMTRA)
- Training new Meat Inspectors for the Meat Hygiene Service
Programmes promoting understanding of rural issues; technical updating and CPD.
Harper Adams offers a wide range of courses which, while they may not lead to formal qualifications, meet the business needs of client organisations, and the CPD needs of individual professionals. Typically such programmes cover new technical developments, such as GM crops, or may involve a broad awareness of current rural issues. Many courses are credit rated so that participants may build up credits towards a postgraduate award.
Current subject areas include:
- Agricultural awareness
- Biodiversity and Environmental Training for Advisers (BETA)
- Safe handling and management of farm animals
- Technical updating for the dairy industry
- Genetically modified crops
- Pesticides in the environment
- Managing farm business risk
- The Health and Safety Executive
- The Environment Agency
- Lloyds TSB Bank