AHCMER501 Develop a sales strategy for rural products

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The currency period for AHCMER501 ended on 22 December 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
AHC — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package
Currency period ends
22 December 2020
Latest release
Release 1 · 27 June 2016
Supersedes
AHCMER501A
Superseded by
AHCMER502 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. AHCMER501Superseded — equivalentDevelop a sales strategy for rural products
  2. equivalent
  3. AHCMER502CurrentDevelop a sales strategy for rural products

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • AHCMER501AAHCMER501equivalent26 June 2016

    This unit is equivalent to AHCMER501A Develop a sales strategy for rural products.

  • AHCMER501AHCMER502equivalent23 December 2020

    Performance criteria clarified. Foundation skills added. Assessment requirements updated

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for AHCMER501 and for its training package AHC (release 11.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

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Where AHCMER501 is used

training.gov.au lists AHCMER501 inside 6 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for AHCMER501 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeAHCMER501 is
AHC60319Advanced Diploma of Agribusiness ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 5 listed

The register still records AHCMER501 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeAHCMER501 is
AHC50116Diploma of AgricultureQualificationelective
AHC50916Diploma of Retail Nursery ManagementQualificationelective
AHC51816Diploma of Organic FarmingQualificationelective
AHC60216Advanced Diploma of HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC60316Advanced Diploma of Agribusiness ManagementQualificationelective

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