horticulture worker
ISCO: 9214. Skills: 62. Essential: 16.
Essential skills
- drive agricultural machines
- execute fertilisation
- grow plants
- harvest crop
- maintain gardening equipment
- maintain storage facilities
- maintain the greenhouse
- monitor fields
- nurse plants
- prepare planting area
- propagate plants
- prune plants
- store crops
- store products
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
- use gardening equipment
Supporting skills
- advise customers on types of flowers
- advise on plant fertilizer
- aeroponics
- agritourism
- agronomy
- apply alternate wetting and drying techniques
- apply sustainable tillage techniques
- carry out work related calculations in agriculture
- coordinate greenhouse environment
- create flower arrangements
- crop production principles
- customer relationship management
- direct the preparation of food
- execute disease and pest control activities
- fertilisation principles
- food safety principles
- greenhouse types
- handle veterinary emergencies
- horticulture principles
- hydroponics
- implement landscaping projects
- integrated pest management
- keep task records
- organic farming
- perform on-farm product processing
- pest control in plants
- pick orders of agricultural products
- place orders for flower products
- plant disease control
- plant harvest methods
- plant propagation
- plant species
- prepare flower arrangements
- present the farm facilities
- process flower bulbs
- promote farm products
- provide agri-touristic services
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- quality criteria for storage facilities
- select adequate packaging for food products
- sell flowers
- soil structure
- types of storage facilities
- use agricultural information systems and databases
- watering principles