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MINOR GROUP 611: MARKET GARDENERS AND CROP GROWERS
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Market gardeners and crop growers plan and carry out the
necessary operations to grow and harvest field crops, to grow
fruit and other tree and shrub crops, to grow garden vegetables
and medicinal and other plants, and to produce horticultural and
horticultural nurseries products, for sale or delivery on a
regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organisations or at
markets.
Tasks performed usually include: determining kinds and
amounts of field, tree and shrub crops to be grown, as well as
vegetables and horticultural products, including those of
horticultural nurseries; purchasing seeds, bulbs and fertiliser;
renting or investing in land and land improvements, buildings,
working animals, equipment and machinery; preparing land, sowing,
planting, cultivating and harvesting various crops; tending
working animals and maintaining farm buildings, machinery and
equipment; producing saplings, bulbs and seeds; storing and
carrying out some basic processing of their produce; delivering
or marketing farm products. Supervision of other workers may be
included.
Occupations in this minor group are classified into the
following unit groups:
6111 Field crop and vegetable growers
6112 Tree and shrub crop growers
6113 Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers
6114 Mixed-crop growers
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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