Mixed Crop and Livestock Farm Worker / Assistant

OFO Code: 821301

Last checked 7 October 2026

PATHLENS

1. Occupation identity

Official description
Mixed crop and livestock farm labourers perform simple and routine tasks in farm production of both crops and animals.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: General Farm Worker

Grading, sorting, bunching and packing produce into containers
Raking, pitching and stacking straw, hay and similar material
Picking fruit, nuts, vegetables and other crops and collecting eggs
Digging and shovelling to clear ditches or for other purposes
Feeding, watering, and cleaning animals and keeping their quarters clean
Planting and harvesting field crops, such as rice, by hand
Performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings and fences
Monitoring livestock, reporting on their condition
Watering, thinning, and weeding crops by hand or using hand tools
Assisting with herding, droving and separating livestock for milking, shearing transportation or slaughter and between pastures
Loading and unloading supplies, produce and other materials

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.

A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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Qualification evidence pending.

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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.

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.