Have a green thumb? Want to learn how to do it professionally and get paid for it?
Work in a role critically important to the future, Put your green thumb to good use, Learn a skill transferable across the world!
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.
Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. 37/100
Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. 35/100
Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. 34/100
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. 32/100
Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. 29/100
Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. 28/100
Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. 28/100
Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. 27/100
Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. 26/100
Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology. 25/100
American Farm Bureau Federation
AmericanHort
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
International Plant Propagators' Society
National Gardening Association
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Agricultural workers
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Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals | 45-2093.00
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