What this code covers
Workers in this unit group plan and carry out the necessary operations to grow and harvest rice for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets. They may grow other secondary crops. Their tasks include: a) determining the kinds and amounts of rice to be grown; b) purchasing seeds, fertilizer and other supplies; c) renting or investing in land and land improvements, buildings, working animals,equipment and machinery; d) performing farm operations such as land preparation, sowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting rice; e) storing and carrying out some basic processing of rice; f) tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, machinery and equipment; g) delivering or marketing farm products. Examples of the occupations classified here: Upland (rice farmer), Lowland (rice farmer), Rainfed (rice farmer), Irrigated (rice farmer)