About this role
Mushroom Pickers harvest mushrooms and prepare produce for distribution.
What you might do day-to-day in this job
Typical tasks for a Mushroom Picker include:
- plants mushroom spawn or spores using hand tools and farm machines
- operates hand tools or farm machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest mushrooms
- conducts appropriate duties to control weed growth, insects, diseases and undesirable fungus growth
- irrigates land for crop growth
- selects and picks mushrooms according to size and ripeness, while discarding rotting and over-ripened produce
- grades, sorts, bunches and packs produce into containers
- loads the filled containers onto trucks.
Courses that can lead to a career as a Mushroom Picker
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- Traineeship
- On-the-job training
- 1 year
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available