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| Advisors - Training |
Best practice changes; through continuing professional development (BASIS Professional Register) advisers stay up date on new products and new practices. It is also important to review what has been covered in the past.

To support the adviser, the VI is establishing new training opportunities:
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Developed by advisers for advisers Biodiversity and Environmental Training
for Advisers (BETA) is a new
qualification BASIS designed to strengthen the
environmental knowledge and competence of advisers.

Application has also been identified as an area where knowledge can be
strengthened; BASIS as of June 2004 have highlighted application technology as a seperate area in which agronomists should
obtain CPD point
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The VI Advisers Information Network provides access
to briefing and training material and discounted training courses.

Agronomists should also consider attending the highly successful roadshows
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