Plennegy Research: General Worker

21 hours ago


Kempton Park, South Africa Plennegy (Pty) Ltd. Full time

Starke Ayres is the foremost African specialist and global supplier of premium vegetable, flower and lawn seed varieties ? both for commercial and home garden planting. The following position has become available for a General Worker, based in Research, Kempton Park.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The job involves the essential tasks of preparing, managing, and maintaining the various stages of plant cultivation, from seed sowing and seedling management to transplanting, emasculation, crossing, harvesting, seed processing, greenhouse cleaning, trial harvesting, and other related activities, ensuring the successful growth and development of plants for seed production

- Seed counting and packaging
- Soaking, washing and drying seedling trays
- Preparing seedling mix for seedling tray filling
- Tray filling with seedling mix
- Sowing according to the sowing list
- Moving seedling trays from germ room to seedling house after 72 hours of sowing and putting in order
- Preparing seedling mix for planting pots
- Filling of planting pots with seedling mix
- Moving in filled pots and arranging them in the greenhouses
- Connecting drippers to the pots
- Moving seedlings from seedling house to greenhouses and field
- Making planting holes in the field
- Transplanting
- Identifying flowers that are at the right stage on the female plants and undertaking emasculation following the crossing book provided by the breeder
- Making pollination according to the crossing book
- Harvesting crossed fruits according to the crossing book
- Harvesting self-pollinated fruits from selected plants by the breeder
- Extracting seed from harvested fruits
- Washing and cleaning seeds after 24hr fermentation
- Drying seeds

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- National Senior Certificate (Grade 12) (Essential)
- Experience in the agricultural industry is advantageous



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