What would you do as a Precision agriculture technician?
Precision agriculture technicians
- usually work regular business hours but may work evenings and weekends
- usually work in offices or outdoors at farms, forests and orchards and may travel locally
- may work in all weather conditions
- need to be practical, accurate and identify and solve problems
Tasks
- collect and analyse geographical and geological data
- use information tools and technology
- analyse environmental data
- improve ways to grow crops
- Improve farming methods
- create maps and models
- adjust technical equipment
- maintain technical equipment
- prepare reports
How can you become a Precision agriculture technician?
You usually need a qualification and experience to become a precision agriculture technician.
You may need
- a relevant tertiary qualification in agriculture, information systems, engineering or similar area
- experience in similar work
- a driver licence
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job..
