Mushroom Pickers

Mushroom Pickers harvest mushrooms and prepare produce for distribution.

What the job involves

• 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