Starke Ayres: General Worker

Description:

The following position of a General Worker has become available at our Kempton Park branch. The job involves the essential tasks of preparing, managing, and maintaining the various stages of plant cultivation, from seed sowing and seedling management to transplanting, emasculation, crossing, harvesting, seed processing, greenhouse cleaning, trial harvesting, and other related activities, ensuring the successful growth and development of plants for seed production.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

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• Seed counting and packaging
  
• Soaking, washing and drying seedling trays
  
• Preparing seedling mix for seedling tray filling
  
• Tray filling with seedling mix
  
• Moving in filled pots and arranging them in the greenhouses
  
• Connecting drippers to the pots
  
• Moving seedlings from seedling house to greenhouses and field
  
• Making planting holes in the field
  
• Harvesting crossed fruits according to the crossing book
  
• Harvesting self-pollinated fruits from selected plants by the breeder
  
• Extracting seed from harvested fruits
  
• Washing and cleaning seeds after 24hr fermentation
  
• Drying seeds
  
• Cleaning used fermentation buckets
  
• Cleaning cutting boards
  
• Removal of plant materials from the greenhouses and loading
  
• Removal of pots from the greenhouses and loading
  

REQUIREMENTS:

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• Grade 12
  

Requirements:

• 
  
• Seed counting and packaging
  
• Soaking, washing and drying seedling trays
  
• Preparing seedling mix for seedling tray filling
  
• Tray filling with seedling mix
  
• Moving in filled pots and arranging them in the greenhouses
  
• Connecting drippers to the pots
  
• Moving seedlings from seedling house to greenhouses and field
  
• Making planting holes in the field
  
• Harvesting crossed fruits according to the crossing book
  
• Harvesting self-pollinated fruits from selected plants by the breeder
  
• Extracting seed from harvested fruits
  
• Washing and cleaning seeds after 24hr fermentation
  
• Drying seeds
  
• Cleaning used fermentation buckets
  
• Cleaning cutting boards
  
• Removal of plant materials from the greenhouses and loading
  
• Removal of pots from the greenhouses and loading
  

• 
  
• Grade 12