From crop production manager to horticulture production manager
20 of the 42 essential skills of a horticulture production manager are already essential for a crop production manager — about 48% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 20
- skills carry over
- 22
- would be new
- 48%
- of the target job covered
- 42
- essential skills of a horticulture production manager
What a horticulture production manager does
Horticulture production managers plan the production, manage the enterprise and participate in the horticultural production.
What carries over
20 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- crop production principles
- ensure soil fertility
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- execute disease and pest control activities
- fertilisation principles
- health and safety regulations
- leadership principles
- maintain storage facilities
- manage crop production
- manage production enterprise
- monitor fields
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- plant harvest methods
- plant species
- soil structure
- store crops
- store products
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
- types of storage facilities
What would be new
22 skillsEssential for a horticulture production manager and not for a crop production manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- budgetary principles
- coordinate greenhouse environment
- create soil and plant improvement programmes
- develop agricultural production plans
- greenhouse types
- grow plants
- harvest crop
- horticulture principles
- maintain plant health
- maintain plant soil nutrition
- make independent operating decisions
- operate horticulture equipment
- optimise production
- plant propagation
- project management principles
- propagate plants
- prune plants
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- quality criteria for storage facilities
- use agricultural information systems and databases
- watering principles
Other moves from crop production manager
2 roles- agronomic crop production team leader26 skills in common
- horticulture production team leader18 skills in common
← crop production managerhorticulture production manager →The other way round
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How far are you from being a horticulture production manager?
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