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Learn about various career paths in greenhouse operations such as grower, assistant grower, service technician, production specialist, and marketing manager. Explore tasks like preparing growing medium, grafting, transplanting seedlings, irrigation, fertilization, maintenance, cultivation advancements, crop scheduling, sales oversight, and customer relations.
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Unit: Greenhouse Operation and Management Lesson:# 2 Career opportunities
Grower and Assistant Grower • Preparing growing medium • Grafting of plants • Transplanting seedlings • Root cuttings • Irrigation • Fertilization of plants
Service technician • Maintains all the greenhouses physical facilities
Production specialist • Should stay up to date on technical advancements of cultivation • Schedules when to plant different crops and manages space allocation
Marketing manager • Oversees sales of mature plants • Customer relations • Prepares each crop for shipment
How it all works • Growers cultivate plants for sale to the wholesaler – sales to retailers- which sale to the general public