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| SUB-MAJOR GROUP 61: MARKET-ORIENTED SKILLED AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERY WORKERS
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Market-oriented skilled agricultural and fishery workers
plan and carry out the necessary operations to 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, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to
wholesale buyers, marketing
organisations or at markets.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group 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; growing or gathering wild fruits,
medicinal and other plants; raising, breeding, tending or hunting
animals mainly to obtain meat, milk, hair, fur, skin,
sericultural, apiarian or other products; cultivating,
conserving and exploiting forests; breeding and raising fish or
catching them; 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 sub-major group are classified into the
following minor groups:
611 Market gardeners and crop growers
612 Market-oriented animal producers and related workers
613 Market-oriented crop and animal producers
614 Forestry and related workers
615 Fishery workers, hunters and trappers
Note
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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