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SUB-MAJOR GROUP 61: MARKET-ORIENTED SKILLED AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERY WORKERS
 


    Market-oriented skilled agricultural and fishery workers plan and carry out the necessary operations to grow and harvest field or tree and shrub crops, gather wild fruits and plants, breed, tend or hunt animals, produce a variety of animal husbandry products, cultivate, conserve and exploit forests, breed or catch fish and cultivate or gather other forms of aquatic life, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organisations or at markets.

    Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: preparing the soil; sowing, planting, spraying, fertilising and harvesting field crops, growing fruit and other tree and shrub crops; growing garden vegetables and horticultural products; growing or gathering wild fruits, medicinal and other plants; raising, breeding, tending or hunting animals mainly to obtain meat, milk, hair, fur, skin, sericultural, apiarian or other products; cultivating, conserving and exploiting forests; breeding and raising fish or catching them; cultivating or gathering other forms of aquatic life; storing and carrying out some basic processing of their produce; selling their products to purchasers, marketing organisations or at markets. Supervision of other workers may be included.

    Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor groups:

    611 Market gardeners and crop growers

    612 Market-oriented animal producers and related workers

    613 Market-oriented crop and animal producers

    614 Forestry and related workers

    615 Fishery workers, hunters and trappers

    Note Workers in agriculture and fishing with mainly managerial tasks should be classified into one of the following unit groups: 1210, Directors and chief executives, 1221, Production and operations department managers in agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing, or 1311, General managers In agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing. Workers who mainly operate agricultural and forestry machinery should be classified into Minor group 833, Agricultural and other mobile plant operators. Workers with simple and routine tasks - such as helpers and labourers - which mainly entail the use of hand-held tools and some physical effort, and which require little or no previous experience and understanding of the work and only limited initiative or judgement, should be classified into Minor group 921, Agricultural fishery and related labourers.

   
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 Updated 18 September 2004, by VA.