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MINOR GROUP 611: MARKET GARDENERS AND CROP GROWERS
 


    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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 Updated 18 September 2004, by VA.