Overview
Mushroom Pickers harvest mushrooms and prepare produce for distribution.
Day-to-day
- 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.
Considerations
- Physically demanding
- Working outdoors
To become a Mushroom Picker
You can work as a Mushroom Picker without formal qualifications. Some on the job training may be provided. A certificate II in production horticulture might be helpful.