Where a crop production worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a crop production worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Crop production workers carry out practical activities and assist in the production of agronomical crops.
Also known as crop worker, farm worker, crop growing worker, crops production worker, farm hand, growing worker.
Elementary occupations 47 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: agronomic crop production team leader, 73%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A crop production worker needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- cultivate crops for biomass handling and moving
- prepare equipment for harvest working with machinery and specialised equipment
- manage crop rotation handling and moving
- monitor fields handling and moving
- store crops handling and moving
- agroforestry agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- maintain storage facilities handling and moving
- execute fertilisation working with machinery and specialised equipment
- propagate plants handling and moving
- grow plants handling and moving
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a crop production worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- horticulture production team leader 72% covered · difficulty 35.1
- horticulture worker 70% covered · difficulty 37.6
- horticulture production manager 68% covered · difficulty 39.3
- hop farmer 53% covered · difficulty 54.1
- vineyard worker 28% covered · difficulty 75
- land-based machinery operator 20% covered · difficulty 80.9
- fruit and vegetable picker 19% covered · difficulty 82.1
- land-based machinery supervisor 15% covered · difficulty 84.6
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Crop production worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a crop production worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.