How to become a vegetable farm worker
Official title: Vegetable farm worker
Also called: Farm supervisor (mushrooms), Hydroponic farm worker, Market gardener, Mushroom farm supervisor, Mushroom farm worker, Mushroom farmer, Vegetable farmer, Vegetable garden worker, Farm supervisor (mushrooms), Hydroponic farm worker
Vegetable farm worker performs farming operations to grow and harvest various types of field crops such as rice and other cereals, beetroot, sugarcane, groundnuts, tobacco, reed or other field crops and potatoes, cabbages or other field vegetables, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organisations or at markets.
Main tasks
- Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilisers and manure
- Selecting and sowing seeds and planting seedlings
- Maintaining crops by cultivating soil, by transplanting, pruning or thinning plants and by setting up and operating irrigation equipment
- Controlling weeds, pests and diseases by applying herbicides and pesticides
- Harvesting crops and destroying diseased or superfluous crops
- Inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading crops for sale or delivery to market
- Maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026