horticulture production manager
ISCO: 6113. Skills: 82. Essential: 42.
Essential skills
- budgetary principles
- coordinate greenhouse environment
- create soil and plant improvement programmes
- crop production principles
- develop agricultural production plans
- ensure soil fertility
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- execute disease and pest control activities
- fertilisation principles
- greenhouse types
- grow plants
- harvest crop
- health and safety regulations
- horticulture principles
- leadership principles
- maintain plant health
- maintain plant soil nutrition
- maintain storage facilities
- make independent operating decisions
- manage crop production
- manage production enterprise
- monitor fields
- operate horticulture equipment
- optimise production
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- plant harvest methods
- plant propagation
- plant species
- project management principles
- propagate plants
- prune plants
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- quality criteria for storage facilities
- soil structure
- store crops
- store products
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
- types of storage facilities
- use agricultural information systems and databases
- watering principles
Supporting skills
- advise customers on types of flowers
- advise on plant fertilizer
- agricultural business management
- agritourism
- agronomical production principles
- agronomy
- apply sustainable tillage techniques
- assign duties to agriculture workers
- create flower arrangements
- customer relationship management
- direct the preparation of food
- drive agricultural machines
- e-agriculture
- ecology
- ensure quality control in packaging
- execute fertilisation
- food legislation
- food plant design
- food safety principles
- food safety standards
- handle veterinary emergencies
- implement landscaping projects
- keep task records
- maintain technical equipment
- manage agricultural staff
- manage agritourism activities
- negotiate sales contracts
- organic farming
- perform on-farm product processing
- pick orders of agricultural products
- place orders for flower products
- prepare flower arrangements
- prepare planting area
- present the farm facilities
- promote farm products
- provide agri-touristic services
- recruit personnel
- select adequate packaging for food products
- sell flowers
- use gardening equipment