Crop Farm Workers
Crop Farm Workers perform routine tasks in producing crops such as fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables and mushrooms.
Fun facts
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Moderate Future Growth
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1210 Weekly Pay Before Tax
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61% full-time Full-Time Share
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31% female Gender Share
Tasks
There are many tasks done by crop farm workers. A few are listed below:
- planting trees, seeds, seedlings, roots, bulbs, vines and other plants using hand tools and farm machines
- building trellises for climbing vegetables and vines
- operating farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables
- spraying trees, vines and other plants with chemicals to control weed growth, insects, fungus growth and diseases
- thinning, weeding and hoeing row crops, and pruning trees and vines
- irrigating land for crop growth
- selecting and picking fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables and mushrooms according to size and ripeness, and discarding rotting and over-ripened produce
- grading, sorting, bunching and packing produce into containers
- loading filled fruit, nut, grain and vegetable containers onto trucks
Specific occupations
- Fruit or Nut Farm Worker
- Fruit or Nut Picker
- Vegetable Picker
- Vineyard Worker
- Mushroom Picker
- Crop Farm Worker
- Coffee Plantation Worker
- Flower Buncher or Picker
- Hop Farm Worker
- Lavender Farm Worker
- Sugar Cane Planter
- Tea Plantation Worker
- Tea Tree Farm Worker
- Turf Farm Worker
- Orchard Worker