Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Plant, tend, and gather fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, flowers, and other crops by hand. Implement the use of shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives.

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Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

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