Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop
Employer
1192 N.E. Livingston St.
Arcadia, FL 34266
United States
Job description
Picking tangerines, fresh or juice, place the ladder in the tree and cut stem with a hand pruner at the point where the stem enters the tangerine, harvest fruit by clipping off their stems with hand pruner. Do not injure the skin with tree branches or pruner during harvesting. Use picking sack to put fruit into, take picking sack to bin and gently remove the fruit from the sack and put into bins. When picking oranges, fresh or juice, place ladder in the tree and secure and pick oranges by snapping the orange off the stem. Put orange into pick sack and empty into tub or bin in the field. Pummelo fresh or juice spot pick on color and size then clip with a hand clipper, place in basket on the ground, then take basket when full to the bin at the end of the row and place in bin one fruit at the time to not damage the fruit. When picking blueberries, using both hands until each hand is full and empty in the buckets approx. weight 6 lbs. When buckets are full the worker will immediately carry the bucket to the weight wagon, workers will dump each filled bucket into a lug where the worker will sort through the harvested berries and remove any berries that do not meet the company standards. Worker will return to blueberry row where he will repeat the process.
Special Requirements
None