05/03/2023, 00:29 ONS SOC specific unit/minor/major group details

5112: HORTICULTURAL TRADES

Job description:
Horticultural trades workers intensively cultivate vegetables, plants, fruit, shrubs, trees and
flowers in greenhouses, market gardens, nurseries and orchards.

Entry requirements of this job:

There are no formal academic entry requirements. NVQs/SVQs in Horticulture are available at
Levels 1, 2 and 3. Professional qualifications from the Royal Horticultural Society are also
available.

Tasks required by this job include:

prepares soil in field, bed or pot by hand or machine;
mixes soil, composts, fertilisers and/or organic matter and spreads fertiliser and manure;
sows seeds and bulbs and transplants seedlings;
propagates plants by taking cuttings and by grafting and budding, applies weed-killer,
fungicide and insecticide to control pests and diseases;
prunes and thins trees and shrubs;
supports trees by staking and wiring.

NS-SEC categorisations:
The simplified NS-SEC analytic class for this code is 6
The simplified NS-SEC operational category for this code is 12.5
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Jobs related to this code:

Grower
Horticulturalist (market gardening)
Market Gardener
Nursery Assistant (agriculture)
Nurseryman

This unit group is part of:

Minor Group 511: AGRICULTURAL AND RELATED TRADES
Sub-Major Group 51: SKILLED AGRICULTURAL AND RELATED TRADES
Major Group 5: SKILLED TRADES OCCUPATIONS

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