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| MAJOR GROUP 6: SKILLED AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERY WORKERS
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Skilled agricultural and fishery workers grow and harvest
field or tree and shrub crops, gather wild fruits and plants,
breed, tend or hunt animals, produce a variety of animal
husbandry products, cultivate, conserve and exploit forests,
breed or catch fish and cultivate or gather other forms of
aquatic life in order to provide food, shelter and income for
themselves and their households. Most occupations in this major
group require skills at the second ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by skilled agricultural and fishery workers
usually include: preparing the soil; sowing, planting, spraying,
fertilising and harvesting field crops; growing fruit and other
tree and shrub crops; growing garden vegetables and
horticultural products; gathering wild fruits and plants;
breeding, raising, tending or hunting animals mainly to obtain
meat, milk, hair, fur, skin, sericultural, apiarian or other
products; cultivating, conserving and exploiting forests;
breeding or catching fish; cultivating or gathering other forms
of aquatic life; storing and carrying out some basic processing
of their produce; selling their products to purchasers, marketing
organisations or at markets. Supervision of other workers may
be included.
Occupations in this major group are classified into the
following sub-major groups:
61 Market-oriented skilled agricultural and fishery workers
62 Subsistence agricultural and fishery workers
Note
The division between the two sub-major groups in this major
group, namely 61, Market-oriented skilled agricultural and
fishery workers, and 62, Subsistence agricultural and fishery
workers, should reflect differences in the degree of market
orientation which are correlated with differences in
organisation of work, quality control, use of commercial or high-
yield seeds and fodder, use of traditional or modern techniques,
irrigation, formal credit arrangements and degree and type of
marketing arrangements for the products. Subsistence
agricultural and fishery workers may market a part of their
produce to obtain cash for purchasing basic goods, paying taxes,
etc., but, as a rule, they do not have any of the advantages
that go with formal credit or marketing arrangements. 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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