Role Responsibilities

• Tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems
• Selecting and sowing seeds, and planting seedlings
• Harvesting crops and inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading products for sale or delivery to market
• Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining types and quantities of crops to be grown, and planning and coordinating production accordingly
• Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
• Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilizers and manure
• Growing flowers and vegetables by intensive cultivation
• Maintaining crops by cultivating soil, by transplanting, pruning or thinning crops, trees and shrubs, and by setting up and operating irrigation equipment
• Producing saplings, bulbs and seeds
• Training and supervising workers in production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
• Storing and carrying out some processing of produce