Description
Perform manual field and greenhouse work to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops and horticultural products. Use hand tools and basic farm machinery; prepare soil; transplant, weed, thin, and prune; apply fertilizers and pesticides; set up and maintain irrigation; and clean, grade, sort, pack, and load harvested products. May build trellises, repair fences and farm structures, and maintain equipment.
Skills
Content
- • Speaking
Technical Skills
- • Operations Monitoring
Abilities
Verbal Abilities
- • Oral Comprehension
- • Oral Expression
Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities
- • Problem Sensitivity
- • Deductive Reasoning
Fine Manipulative Abilities
- • Arm-Hand Steadiness
- • Manual Dexterity
- • Finger Dexterity
Control Movement Abilities
- • Control Precision
- • Multilimb Coordination
- • Rate Control
Reaction Time and Speed Abilities
- • Reaction Time
Physical Strength Abilities
- • Static Strength
- • Explosive Strength
- • Dynamic Strength
- • Trunk Strength
Endurance
- • Stamina
Flexibility, Balance, and Coordination
- • Extent Flexibility
- • Gross Body Coordination
- • Gross Body Equilibrium
Visual Abilities
- • Near Vision
- • Far Vision
Auditory and Speech Abilities
- • Speech Recognition
- • Speech Clarity
Related specializations
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
