Agriculture and Conservation
Study Agriculture and Conservation at Melbourne Polytechnic and learn about conservation, winemaking, farming, climate change, and agronomy.
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Future-proof your career in conservation
If you’re interested in climate change, farming, sustainability, and winemaking, look no further than Agriculture and Conservation.
Melbourne Polytechnic’s Agriculture and Conservation qualifications offer a broad range of specialisations including Conservation, Agronomy, Aquaculture, and Viticulture and Winemaking.
Graduates of Melbourne Polytechnic’s Agriculture and Conservation qualifications may find work as small or industrial scale farmers, agricultural advisors, farm managers, rural business managers, winemakers, viticulturalists, agronomists, turf specialists, aquaculturalists, soil scientists, sustainable land management specialists, or any number of career paths.
Be part of one of Australia’s primary industries as it moves into the future and study Agriculture and Conservation at Melbourne Polytechnic.
Agriculture and Conservation at Melbourne Polytechnic
What you can do with an Agronomy degree
An agronomy degree will give you the current knowledge and industry-standard skills that are needed to develop, promote, and improve the productivity and sustainability of agricultural practices.
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Top reasons why studying Conservation and Land Management is more important than ever
With the world facing a number of challenges in the environment, from climate change to biodiversity loss, land management and conservation is a field that is more important than ever before.
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Jennifer Bessell flips her career to agriculture
Course by course, Jennifer Bessell has studied her way from a long career in nursing into a new life in agriculture. After many years as an operating theatre nurse, she was ready to move to a rural area, live on the land and focus on agriculture.
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Getting your career started in Agriculture
The future of agriculture depends on tried and tested traditions combined with innovative and futuristic thinking. Start your career in Agriculture and work your way up.
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