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Field Vegetable Farmer
OFO Code: 611102
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 611102
- Occupation
- Field Vegetable Farmer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6111 · Field Crop and Vegetable Growers
Official description
Field crop and vegetable growers plan, organize and perform farming operations to grow and harvest various types of field crop such as wheat and other cereals, rice, beetroot, sugar-cane, ground-nuts, tobacco, reed or their field crops and potatoes, cabbages or other field vegetables, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets. Farmers not involved in co-operatives are also classified under this unit group.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Field Vegetable Production Supervisor, Field Vegetable Farm Foreman
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
- Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilizers and manure
- Training and supervising workers in crop production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
- Inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading crops for sale or delivery to market
- Tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems;
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of farm activities and transactions
- Controlling weeds, pests and diseases, by applying herbicides and pesticides
- Maintaining crops by cultivating soil, by transplanting, pruning or thinning plants, and by setting up and operating irrigation equipment
- Selecting and sowing seeds, and planting seedlings
- Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining types and quantities of crops to be grown, and planning and coordinating production accordingly
- Harvesting crops and destroying diseased or superfluous crops
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.