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Agricultural Farm Manager
OFO Code: 131101
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 131101
- Occupation
- Agricultural Farm Manager
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1311 · Agricultural and Forestry Production Managers
Official description
Agricultural and forestry production managers plan, direct, and coordinate production in large scale agricultural, horticultural and forestry operations such as plantations, large ranches, collective farms and agricultural co-operatives to grow and harvest crops, and breed and raise livestock.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Mixed Crop Farm Manager, Dairy Farm Manager, Livestock Farm Manager, Arboriculture Farm Manager, Field Vegetable Farm Manager, Mixed Crop and Livestock Farm Manager, Agronomy Farm Manager, Sugar Farm Manager, Vegetable Farm Manager, Horticultural Farm Manager, Ornamental Horticultural Farm Manager
- Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as farm management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of agricultural and forestry workers and contractors
- Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of crops and livestock
- Analysing soil to determine types and quantities of fertilizer required for maximum production
- Contracting with farmers or independent owners for production of crops and livestock, or for management of production
- Monitoring agricultural and forestry market activity and planning production to meet contract requirements and market demand
- Directing and coordinating activities such as planting, irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, and grading
- Planning the type, intensity and sequence of farm operations (e.g. Determining the best times for planting, spraying and harvesting)
- Identifying and controlling agricultural and forest environmental toxins, weeds, pests and diseases
- Organizing farming operations such as maintaining buildings, water supply systems and equipment
- Inspecting plantations and fields to determine maturity dates of crops, or to estimate potential crop damage from weather
- Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as tractors, seed, fertilizer, and chemicals
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.