field and vegetable crop labourer
Your tasks
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots.
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market..
- Hand harvesting vegetables.
- Pack fruits and vegetables.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Seed cutting.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
Requirements
Education No degree, certificate or diploma.
Equipment and machinery experience
- Vegetable harvester.
- Planting equipment.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Work under pressure.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Attention to detail.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Sitting.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Walking.
Personal suitability
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Values and ethics.
- Quick learner.
No experience (will train).
Other
Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming.
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato).
- Outdoors.
- Wet/damp.
- Dusty.
- Hot.
- Noisy.
- Cold/refrigerated.
- Dirty.
- Work setting: Rural area.
Employment terms options
- Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
Employment terms options
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.