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Overview
Crop production workers carry out practical field and farm tasks that support agronomical crop production, from planting preparation to monitoring, harvest and storage.
In job descriptions, look for crop cultivation, field monitoring, fertilisation, pest and disease control, agricultural machinery, harvest preparation, crop storage, irrigation and plant propagation.
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Open in Job ExplorerWork context
Crop production workers spend much of the job in fields, storage areas and around machinery. Tasks follow the growing cycle: preparing land, planting, monitoring crops, harvest and storage.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes operating agricultural machinery, fertilisation, disease and pest control, crop rotation, plant propagation, irrigation, harvest preparation and storage quality. Physical fieldwork is common.
Salary context
Salary context depends on crop type, season length, machinery responsibility, harvest workload, storage duties, irrigation work, pest-control tasks and whether the role is permanent or seasonal.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward machinery operator, crop team lead, farm supervisor, irrigation or storage specialist, organic-production assistant or broader practical farm management work.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name the crop, field size, machines, harvest shifts, storage facilities, irrigation and pesticide or disease-control tasks. These details show work conditions.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
45-2092.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETAgricultural Equipment Operators
45-2091.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Mixed crop and livestock farm labourers (9213)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c9191f7f-28b5-4df8-991d-804c53009b83 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 9213.1 |
| ISCO group | 9213 |
| Concept type | Occupation |