Horticulture production manager
Also called horticulture manager, horticultural manager, horticultural producer
Horticulture production managers plan the production, manage the enterprise and participate in the horticultural production.
What you'd do
Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers · ILO- Monitoring market activity and conditions determining kinds and amounts of vegetables, horticultural and nursery products to be grown, and planning and coordinating production accordingly
- Preparing land by conditioning soil, levelling ground and installing and operating irrigation and drainage systems
- Planting trees, hedges, garden plants and grass
- Pruning and trimming trees, shrubs and hedges, installing plant supports and protection, and rolling, mowing, aerating and edging lawns
- Constructing features and facilities within gardens, such as paths or paved areas, walls, rockeries, garden beds, ponds and water features, sheds and fences
- Checking the health of plants and trees, identifying and treating weeds, pests and diseases, and applying mulch and fertilizers
- Producing saplings, bulbs and seeds and raising plants from seeds or cuttings
- Harvesting crops and inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading products for sale or delivery to market
- Maintaining buildings, greenhouses and other structures, equipment and water supply systems
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies, and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
- Training and supervising workers in production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
- Indoors and outdoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Lots of contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines now and then
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Yes, good prospects9 EU countries are short of gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers now, but fewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
More people will leave this work than new people are needed.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €700 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,500 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers in the EU, women earn 16% more per hour than men. Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in crop and livestock production is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.18 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 12 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).