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6113 GARDENERS, HORTICULTURAL AND NURSERY GROWERS
 


    Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers plan and carry out the necessary operations to grow vegetables by intensive cultivation techniques, to cultivate trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants, and to produce saplings, bulbs and seeds, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organisations or at markets.

    Tasks include -

    (a) determining kinds and amounts of vegetables, horticultural and nursery products to be grown;

    (b) purchasing seeds, bulbs, fertiliser and other supplies;

    (c) renting or investing in land and land improvements, buildings, working animals, equipment and machinery-

    (d) performing farm operations such as land preparation, sowing, growing vegetables by intensive cultivation, cultivating flowers, trees or bushes and harvesting crops;

    (e) producing saplings, bulbs and seeds;

    (f) cultivating flowers, trees, shrubs and other plants in parks or public or private gardens;

    (g) growing plants for exhibition or medicinal purposes;

    (h) delivering or marketing products;

    (i) storing and carrying out some basic processing of their produce;

    (j) tending working animals and maintaining buildings, machinery and equipment;

    (k) performing related tasks;

    (l) supervising other workers.

    Examples of the occupations classified here:

  • Cultivator, mushroom

  • Farm worker, skilled/nursery

  • Gardener

  • Grower, horticultural nursery

  • Horticultural grower


  • Some related occupations classified elsewhere:

  • Department manager, production and operations/agriculture - 1221

  • General manager, agriculture - 1311

  • Labourer, farm - 9211

  • Managing director, enterprise/agriculture - 1210

  • Operator, agricultural machinery - 8331


   
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 Updated 18 September 2004, by VA.