Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
O*NET Code: 45-2092.00
Description
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.
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Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse → Soil and Plant Scientists
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