Tree and shrub crop growers
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining types and quantities of crops to be grown, and planning and coordinating production accordingly43
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of farm activities and transactions32
- Training and supervising workers in crop production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors.26
- Controlling weeds, pests and diseases by applying herbicides and pesticides14
- Inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading crops for sale or delivery to market14
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce12
- Selecting and sowing seeds, and planting seedlings12
- Maintaining crops by cultivating soil, by transplanting, pruning or thinning trees and shrubs, and by setting up and operating irrigation equipment11
- Tending trees or bushes, collecting sap and harvesting crops10
- Tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems9
- Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilizers and manure8
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining types and quantities of crops to be grown, and planning and coordinating production accordingly(43)
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of farm activities and transactions(32)
- Training and supervising workers in crop production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors.(26)
- Controlling weeds, pests and diseases by applying herbicides and pesticides(14)
- Inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading crops for sale or delivery to market(14)
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce(12)
- Selecting and sowing seeds, and planting seedlings(12)
- Maintaining crops by cultivating soil, by transplanting, pruning or thinning trees and shrubs, and by setting up and operating irrigation equipment(11)
- Tending trees or bushes, collecting sap and harvesting crops(10)
- Tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems(9)
- Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilizers and manure(8)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 17.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining types and quantities of crops to be grown, and planning and coordinating production accordingly
- • Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of farm activities and transactions
- • Preparing soil by hand or machine, and spreading fertilizers and manure
- • Tending working animals and maintaining farm buildings, structures, equipment and water supply systems
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers |
|---|---|
| Greece | 8.0% · 345 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 6.8% · 526 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 5.5% · 953 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 2.8% · 77 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.7% · 127 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 2.6% · 119 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 2.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 2.4% · 61 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 2.2% · 659 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 2.2% · 37 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 2.1% · 494 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 1.9% · 56 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 1.9% · 17 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 1.9% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.8% · 410 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 1.8% · 88 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 1.8% · 26 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 1.6% · 86 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.5% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.4% · 42 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 1.3% · 132 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 1.2% · 65 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.2% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.1% · 478 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.9% · 50 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.9% · 48 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.9% · 317 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 0.9% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 0.6% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.5% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland3,810
- Denmark3,077
- Norway2,863
- Luxembourg2,596
- Ireland2,457
- EU272,404
- Germany2,358
- Sweden2,193
- Finland2,149
- Italy2,137
- Netherlands2,083
- France1,931
- Spain1,780
- Slovenia1,689
- Malta1,516
- Greece1,475
- Latvia1,454
- Estonia1,427
- Poland1,425
- Lithuania1,398
- Czechia1,365
- Croatia1,348
- Romania1,348
- Cyprus1,311
- Slovakia1,189
- Portugal1,137
- Hungary1,120
- Bulgaria777
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?