Description
Harvests vegetables and prepares produce for distribution.
Skill Level
5
Alternative Titles
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Specializations
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Skills Assessment Authority
Caveats
Group: 8412 Crop Farm Workers
Description
perform routine tasks in producing crops such as fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables and mushrooms.
Tasks
- planting trees, seeds, seedlings, roots, bulbs, vines and other plants using hand tools and farm machines
- building trellises for climbing vegetables and vines
- operating farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables
- spraying trees, vines and other plants with chemicals to control weed growth, insects, fungus growth and diseases
- thinning, weeding and hoeing row crops, and pruning trees and vines
- irrigating land for crop growth
- selecting and picking fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables and mushrooms according to size and ripeness, and discarding rotting and over-ripened produce
- grading, sorting, bunching and packing produce into containers
- loading filled fruit, nut, grain and vegetable containers onto trucks
Skill Level
Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications outlined below.
Occupations in this Group
- Vegetable Picker – ANZSCO 841215
- Vineyard Worker – ANZSCO 841216
- Mushroom Picker – ANZSCO 841217
- Crop Farm Workers nec – ANZSCO 841299
- Fruit or Nut Farm Worker – ANZSCO 841211
- Fruit or Nut Picker – ANZSCO 841212
- Grain, Oilseed or Pasture Farm Worker (Aus) / Field Crop Farm Worker (NZ) – ANZSCO 841213
- Vegetable Farm Worker (Aus) / Market Garden Worker (NZ) – ANZSCO 841214