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Learning objective 8-4: Profitability

Indicators | Elaborations | Assessment

Students will gain knowledge, practical skills, and experience to:

  • critically examine the impact of a range of specific factors on the profitability of primary production in New Zealand.

Indicators

  • Investigates a range of factors that can impact on decisions made for a specified primary production system in New Zealand (for example, physical and climatic conditions; social, economic, political, cultural, and market forces).
  • Explains in detail factors (including physical and climatic conditions and social, economic, political, cultural, and market forces) that affect the profitability of a specified New Zealand primary production system.
  • Analyses how a range of factors can impact on the profitability of a specified New Zealand primary production system (for example, how decisions relating to the continuation of apricot production in Roxburgh have been determined by climatic, social, economic, and market forces).

Possible context elaborations

  • Production of Royal Gala apples: Investigate the factors (for example, physical and climatic conditions; social, economic, political, cultural and market forces) behind the decisions the orchardist must make.
  • Royal Gala apples: Recommend management practices that will produce apples of the most profitable count size, considering physical conditions such as soil and water, social factors such as workforce and skill base, economic factors such as the cost of thinning, pruning, and harvesting, and market forces factors (for example, count size, yield, quality, reliability of supply, prices, consumer preference, exchange rate).
  • Marine farming of salmon: Analyse the physical and climatic conditions and the social, economic, political, cultural, and market forces that could influence establishment and location of new enterprises.
  • Native plant nursery: Investigate the factors (for example, physical and climatic conditions and social, economic, political, cultural, and market forces) behind the decisions the nursery owner/manager must make to ensure profitability.

Assessment for qualifications

Agricultural and horticultural science programmes integrate concepts and learning from achievement objectives in biology, science, economics, geography, and technology. For this reason, learning can be assessed using achievement standards from a range of subjects as well as those from agricultural and horticultural science. Teachers have considerable scope to select standards that will assess valued learning and engage their students.

Learning described by this objective could be assessed using one or more of these achievement standards:

  • 91528 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.1 Carry out an investigation into an aspect of a New Zealand primary product or its production; Internal, 4 credits.
  • 91529 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.2 Research and report on the links between production and marketability of a New Zealand primary product; Internal, 6 credits.
  • 91530 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of how market forces affect supply of and demand for New Zealand primary products; External, 5 credits.
  • 91602 Biology 3.2 Integrate biological knowledge to develop an informed response to a socio-scientific issue; Internal, 3 credits
  • 91603 Biology 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of the responses of plants and animals to their external environment; External, 5 credits
  • 91604 Biology 3.4 Demonstrate understanding of how an animal maintains a stable internal environment; Internal, 3 credits
  • 91401 Economics 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of micro-economic concepts; Internal, 5 credits.
  • 91403 Economics 3.5 Demonstrate understanding of macro-economic influences on the New Zealand economy; External, 6 credits.

At the time of publication, achievement standards were in development to align them with The New Zealand Curriculum. Please ensure that you are using the correct version of the standards by going to the NZQA website.

The NZQA subject-specific resources pages are very helpful. From there, you can find all the achievement standards and links to assessment resources, both internal and external.

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Aligned level 1 achievement standards were registered for use in 2011 and level 2 for use in 2012; level 3 will be registered for use in 2013.

Last updated September 7, 2021



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