Code and classification of the field of education: 7М08 Agriculture and bioresources

Code and classification of training areas: 7M081 Crop

Awarded degree: Master of Agriculture in the educational program "Agrochemical service of agriculture"

Training term: 1 year

The purpose of the educational program "Agrochemical service of agriculture" is the training of specialists who are able to formulate and solve production practical problems in substantiating the complex of organizational and economic measures in the system of agricultural agrochemical services for restoring and improving soil fertility, ensuring the growth of volumes and improving product quality, reducing specific costs in the agricultural sector.

Objectives of the educational program:

- deepening the theoretical and practical training on the effective use of fertilizers; propaganda of agrochemical knowledge;

- strengthening the skills of organizing and conducting soil and agrochemical surveys; conducting mass analyzes of fertilizers, soil, plants; compiling agrochemical cartograms;

- development of the ability to make independent decisions when developing recommendations on the effective use of chemicals; providing specific assistance to agricultural producers.

General characteristics of the educational program

The specific features, scale and importance of chemicalization in agriculture require the functioning of an independent specialized system of agrochemical services, the main function of which is the scientifically based use of mineral and organic fertilizers, chemical and biological plant protection products, soil ameliorators, feed additives, growth substances and other means chemicalization in agricultural enterprises. With the direct participation of specialists of agro-chemical service, advanced methods and technologies for the use of chemicals are introduced, new types of fertilizers and growth stimulants are being tested and introduced into production. Specialists of agro-chemical service maintain constant control over the state of fertility of the lands of the republic.

This OP has been designed in such a way that it provides an opportunity to study the basics of using modern methods of collecting information storage and processing in the agrochemical survey of soils of agricultural lands, conducting agrochemical and agroecological monitoring. Thus, the graduate who has mastered this EP will be ready to carry out work on the organization and conduct of soil-agrochemical and environmental surveys; conducting mass analyzes of fertilizers, soil, plants; compiling agrochemical cartograms; the development of recommendations for the rational use of agricultural land and the effective use of chemicals; providing specific assistance to agricultural producers.

Professional activities

Republican branches of the State Institution "Republican Scientific and Methodological Center of Agrochemical Service" of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan; structural units of the Ministry of Agriculture, Committee on Environmental Regulation and Control of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, departments of agriculture of regional and district akimats; agricultural formations of various forms of ownership.

Professional competencies

1) to  have an idea about: the parameters of soil fertility about the economic valuation of lands, the principles of conducting soil and agrochemical surveys, technologies of remote sensing of lands and geoinformation systems.

2) to  know the types of soil, their composition and properties in relation to specific conditions; principles and stages of agroecological assessment of land, carrying out soil and agrochemical survey of farm territories; methods of agrochemical analyzes, determining the needs of crops for fertilizers.

3) to be able to: conduct an agrochemical examination of the soil, make cartograms of the soil supply with nutrients; determine the need for fertilizers, the most effective terms and methods, technology of fertilizer application and termination; carry out the selection of soil and plant samples, agrochemical analysis of soils, plants and fertilizers; use in the work of modern laboratory instruments and computer equipment; create electronic agrochemical cartograms;

4) to  have the skills to: use remote sensing data, GPS-GLONASS receivers and automatic samplers; soil and agrochemical survey of farm territories; carrying out agrochemical analyzes of soil and plants, plant and soil diagnostics; use of computer methods for collecting, storing, processing and analyzing information

For persons with disabilities, it is formed an individual learning trajectory which provides the opportunity to choose the form of education and professional practice.