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6113 GARDENERS, HORTICULTURAL AND NURSERY GROWERS
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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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