How to become an Agronomic and Garden Crop Grower
Official title: Agronomic and Garden Crop Growers
Crop and horticultural growers plant, grow, cultivate and harvest field and horticultural crops.
Main tasks
- Decide which crops to grow and in what quantities
- Prepare land, sow, grow, cultivate and harvest crops
- Buy seedlings and seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and other supplies
- Rent, buy or maintain farmland, farm buildings, farm equipment and machinery
- Apply herbicides and insecticides to control weeds, pests and disease carriers
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: crop and livestock production (0811); horticulture (0812). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 3, five-year junior college (五專) 1, two-year junior college (二專) 1. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Field crop farming. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 134 農藝. Tested at grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.; Technician certificate: Horticulture. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 133 園藝. Tested at grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.; Technician certificate: Landscape gardening. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 136 造園景觀. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$403,000 a year
- Demand for Agriculture, forestry and fishery jobs is projected at about 516,000 in 2024 and about 495,000 in 2030. (-4.1%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Agronomic and Garden Crop Grower?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Field crop farming.
How much does an Agronomic and Garden Crop Grower earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$403,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is an Agronomic and Garden Crop Grower a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change -4.1% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of an Agronomic and Garden Crop Grower?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- 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