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| MINOR GROUP 612: MARKET-ORIENTED ANIMAL PRODUCERS AND RELATED WORKERS
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Market-oriented animal producers and related workers plan
and carry out the necessary operations to breed, raise and tend
livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses or other
animals, including birds, reptiles, fur-producing animals,
poultry, game, and to produce a variety of animal husbandry
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 livestock, poultry, game, birds, reptiles, bees,
silkworms and other animals to be raised; purchasing animals,
producing and purchasing fodder and other supplies; renting or
investing in grazing land and land improvements, buildings,
machinery, livestock and other animals; performing farm
operations such as breeding and raising livestock, poultry,
etc., and producing various animal husbandry products; storing
and carrying out some basic processing of their produce;
maintaining farm buildings, machinery and equipment; delivering
or marketing farm products. Supervision of other workers may be
included.
Occupations in this minor group are classified into the
following unit groups:
6121 Dairy and livestock producers
6122 Poultry producers
6123 Apiarists and sericulturists
6124 Mixed-animal producers
6129 Market-oriented animal producers and related workers
not elsewhere classified
Note
Workers in animal production and breeding with mainly
managerial tasks should be classified into one of the following
unit groups: 1 21 0, Directors and chief executives, 1221,
Production and operations department managers In agriculture,
hunting, forestry and fishing, or 131 1, 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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