Osara Ag­ri­cul­tural Col­lege

Nat­ural Re­sources Pro­du­cer

A nat­ural re­sources pro­du­cer gath­ers the raw ma­ter­i­als he or she needs from nature or cul­tiv­ates wild plants suit­able for his or her product range. The field in­cludes the house­hold use of wild ber­ries, mush­rooms and herbs as well as their com­mer­cial gath­er­ing and fur­ther re­fine­ment.

Nat­ural re­sources pro­du­cers work in com­pan­ies selling nat­ural products, their tasks in­clud­ing gath­er­ing and product design, or they can work at re­cep­tion points of ber­ries or mush­rooms. In ad­di­tion, the qual­i­fic­a­tion pre­pares the stu­dent to work in com­pan­ies of­fer­ing tour­ism or well-​being ser­vices as a nature spe­cial­ist, or as an in­de­pend­ent en­tre­pren­eur.

• Vo­ca­tional Qual­i­fic­a­tion in Nat­ural and En­vir­on­mental Pro­tec­tion

Rural En­tre­pren­eur

Rural en­tre­pren­eurs work on farms in vari­ous tasks. The mod­ern rural en­tre­pren­eur is ex­pec­ted to mas­ter tech­no­logy and budget plan­ning. Due to changes in the ag­ri­cul­tural field, the rural en­tre­pren­eur must be ready to de­velop new ad­di­tional means of live­li­hood. Co­oper­a­tion with other farms and ma­chinery con­tract­ing, for ex­ample, have strongely in­creased.

Rural en­tre­pren­eurs work as en­tre­pren­eurs on their own farms, at ag­ri­cul­tural equip­ment stores, within land­scape man­age­ment ser­vices and as ag­ri­cul­tural ma­chinery con­tract­ors.

• Vo­ca­tional Qual­i­fic­a­tion in Ag­ri­cul­ture

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