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Job Position: General Worker
Location: Kempton Park, Gauteng
Closing Date: Not Specified
Reference No: G040730
Job Type: Permanent
Job Description
Starke Ayres is the foremost African specialist and global supplier of premium vegetable, flower and lawn seed varieties – both for commercial and home garden planting. The following position has become available for a General Worker, based in Kempton park.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Seed counting and packaging
- Soaking, washing and drying seedling trays
- Preparing seedling mix for seedling tray filling
- Tray filling with seedling mix
- Sowing according to the sowing list
- Moving seedling trays from germ room to seedling house after 72 hrs of sowing and putting in order
- Preparing seedling mix for planting pots
- Filling of planting pots 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
- Transplanting
- Preparing ropes for trellising and connecting them to the cables and then to the plants
- Identifying flowers that are at the right stage on the female plants and undertaking emasculation following the crossing book provided by the breeder
- Making pollination according to the crossing book
- 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
Requirements
- National Senior Certificate (Grade 12)
- Experience in the agricultural industry is advantageous
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