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Crop Farm Workers

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Crop Farm Workers

Crop Farm Workers perform routine tasks in producing crops such as fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables and mushrooms.

Fun facts

  • 1210 Weekly Pay Before Tax
  • 61% full-time Full-Time Share
  • 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