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Mixed Crop Farm Production Manager / Foreman

OFO Code: 611401

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
611401
Occupation
Mixed Crop Farm Production Manager / Foreman
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
Unit group
6114 · Mixed Crop Growers

Official description
Mixed crop growers plan organize and perform farming operations to grow and harvest specific combinations of field crops, field vegetables, tree and shrub crops, and garden, horticultural and nursery products, for sale or delivery 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: Mixed Crop Production Supervisor, Mixed Crop Farm Foreman

  • Harvesting crops inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading products for sale or delivery to market
  • Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
  • Tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems
  • Training and supervising workers in production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
  • 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
  • Maintaining crops by cultivating soil, by transplanting, pruning or thinning crops trees and shrubs, and by setting up and operating irrigation equipment
  • Growing flowers and vegetables by intensive cultivation
  • Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
  • Producing saplings, bulbs and seeds
  • Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilizers and manure

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

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3. Salary evidence

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

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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.
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