611203 - A grower of fruit trees and shrubs

Fruit bush and fruit tree growers plan, organize, and carry out farming operations to grow and harvest crops, sell or deliver to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations, or sell at markets.

Main activities

* monitor market activity, determine the species of cultivated crops and accordingly plans and coordinate production;
* prepare soil manually or with a machine and spread fertilizers and manure. Eliminate weeds, pests, and diseases using herbicides and pesticides, supervise trees or bushes, harvest the crop;
* select seeds for sowing and plants seedlings, cultivate soil, supervise seedlings, inspect seedlings intended for sale or delivery to the market, clean, classify, pack, store;
* store production and take care of realization and processing;
* organize the sale of production, evaluate farm activity.

Characteristic competences

* plan seedling planting;
* use chemical substances for disease prevention and pest eradication;
* monitor the health of fruit trees and fruit bushes;
* plan crop harvesting, storage, and realization;
* work with agricultural machinery.