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Requirements
Skills & Abilities
Work site environment
- Floriculture production
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
Tasks
- Apply fertilizers
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
- Clean the crops
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvest seedlings
- Mixing fertilizer
- Pack fruits and vegetables
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
Type of crops
- Melons
- Orchard fruit
- Raspberries
- Strawberries
- Berries
- Vegetables
Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Fruit harvester
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Hand tools
Automated systems experience
- Automated irrigation system
Area of specialization
- Nursery or greenhouse
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast
- paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand
- eye co
- ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Quick learner
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
- Flexible hours
- Morning
Employment terms options
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime required
Other benefits
- On
- site housing options
Compensation Details
$16.00 hourly
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