Incorporation into the agricultural company: Olive growing

Modules

AGRICULTURAL COMPANY

05/02/2025 - 05/03/2025

Morning: 10:00h-12:00h

Application deadline until 01/31/2025

Contents

• Introduction to the Agricultural Business. Ways to access the ownership of the company. Business planning and economic viability.
• Legislative concepts related to agricultural enterprises. Lines of assistance. Priority agricultural exploitation (EAP).
• Business start-up assistance for young farmers. The business plan. Application for assistance.
• Aid to support investments in agricultural holdings: Improvement plans

SOIL, IRRIGATION, NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENT

02/17/2025 - 02/21/2025

Morning: 08:30h-14:30h

Application deadline until 02/02/2025

Contents

• Soil. General concepts of edaphology. Soil analysis. Biological aspects of the soil. Conservation and management of olive grove soil. Herbicides
• Water: Water requirements in crops. Irrigation systems and management in olive groves.
• Fertilization: Basic nutrient requirements for plant development. Foliar analysis. Fertilization.
• Olive groves and the environment. Conditionality. Integrated production.

AGRONOMY AND PRUNING OF THE OLIVE GROVE

03/03/2025 - 07/03/2025

Morning: 08:30h-14:30h

Application deadline until 02/16/2025

Contents

• General concepts of botany and plant physiology.
• Propagation and plantation design. Varieties.
• Olive tree pruning techniques and systems.
• Olive tree pests and diseases. Phytosanitary protection. Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

CULTIVATION AND HARVESTING TECHNIQUES

03/17/2025 - 03/21/2025

Morning: 08:30h-14:30h

Application deadline until 02/03/2025

Contents

• Cultivation techniques. Agronomic differences between different olive tree varieties.
• Olive harvesting: Methods for evaluating the optimal time of harvesting. Harvesting systems and machinery.
• Fruit quality and oil quality. Classification of olive oil types. Physical-chemical and organoleptic analysis of olive oils.

ASSOCIATIONISM AND COMMERCIALIZATION

01/09/2025 - 29/09/2025

Morning: 10:00h-12:00h

Application deadline until 08/17/2025

Contents

• Associative forms in the agricultural sector: Cooperative Societies. Generalities; Agricultural Transformation Societies; Other types of societies.
• Cooperative societies in the agricultural sector: Cooperatives Law.
• Commercial management of the agricultural and agri-food company: Agents, channels and prices.
• Marketing, general concepts. The law of supply and demand. SWOT analysis.

ACCOUNTING AND INITIATION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE

09/29/2025 - 10/27/2025

Morning: 10:00h-12:00h

Application deadline until 09/14/2025

Contents

• Introduction to accounting
• Technical and financial amortizations.
• Basic accounting applied to the agricultural and livestock sector: Gross margin accounting.
• Practical assumption
• Introduction to applied computing in the agricultural sector. Websites of interest.

PHYTOSANITARY PRODUCT APPLICATOR. QUALIFIED LEVEL.

01/10/2025 - 28/11/2025

Morning: 08:30h-14:30h

Application deadline until 09/16/2025

Contents

• Application equipment: description and operation.
• Cleaning, regulation and calibration of equipment.
• Maintenance, reviews and periodic inspections of equipment.
• Equipment review and calibration practices. Risks related to the use of plant protection product application equipment.
• Phytosanitary treatment application practices.
• Disposal of empty containers. Management systems. Regulations.
• Traceability. Requirements for food and feed hygiene. Record of pests and treatments on farms. The farm logbook.
• Work-health relationship: regulations on prevention of occupational risks.
• Agricultural social security.
• Regulations affecting the use of PF: Purchase, transport and storage. Authorization and registration of phytosanitary products, and the extent to which this affects their use.
• Methods for identifying illegal plant protection products and risks associated with their use. Infringements, sanctions and offences.
• Crop pests: classification, description and damage they cause.
• Pest control methods. Importance of non-chemical methods. Means of phytosanitary protection.
• Strategies and techniques for integrated pest management. Biological control and other alternative techniques for pest control in different crops. General principles of integrated pest management. Decision making in plant protection and introduction to comparative evaluation. Pest and biological control organism identification practices and their management.
• Integrated production and organic production.
• Plant protection products: active substances and commercial preparations. Description and classification. Choice of plant protection products. Identification and interpretation of labels and safety data sheets: Classification and labelling. Pictograms, signal words, risk phrases or indications of danger, precautionary advice, symptoms of poisoning and recommendations for the user. Practical cases.
• Risks arising from the use of plant protection products for the environment. Measures to reduce these risks, including emergency measures in the event of accidental contamination. Good environmental practices in relation to the preservation of natural resources, biodiversity, flora and fauna. Protection and special measures established in the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC). Practical cases.
• Dangers of phytosanitary products for human health
• Measures to reduce health risks: Levels of operator exposure. Possible risks arising from mixing products. Preventive and protective measures for the applicator. Personal protective equipment.
• PPE identification and use practices
• Correct sequence during transport, storage and handling of phytosanitary products.
• Phytosanitary treatments. Preparation, mixing and application.
• Methods for applying phytosanitary products. Factors to take into account for efficient and correct application. Importance of dosage and application volumes. Practical cases.

BUSINESS RELATIONS AND PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISKS

27/10/2025 - 27/11/2025

Morning: 10:00h-12:00h

Application deadline until 12/10/2025

Contents

• The Spanish tax system: State, regional and local taxes and fees. Practical cases.
• Tax exemptions for priority agricultural holdings.
• The social security system. Practical case.
• Occupational risks in agricultural and livestock companies.