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Subsistence Mixed Crop and Livestock Farmers
OFO Code: 631301
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 631301
- Occupation
- Subsistence Mixed Crop and Livestock Farmers
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6313 · Subsistence Mixed Crop and Livestock Farmers
Official description
Subsistence mixed crop and livestock farmers grow and harvest field or tree and shrub crops, vegetables and fruit, gather wild fruits, medicinal and other plants, tend or hunt animals, and/or catch fish and gather various forms of aquatic life in order to provide food, shelter and a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
More official OFO detail
- Building and maintaining houses and other shelters
- Preparing the soil, sowing, planting, tending and harvesting field crops
- Making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household
- Selling some products at local markets
- Gathering wild fruits, medicinal and other plants
- Fetching water and gathering firewood
- Storing produce for later use and carrying out some processing of produce
- Growing vegetables, fruit and other tree and shrub crops
- Breeding, tending and feeding animals and poultry mainly to obtain meat, eggs, milk, hair, skin or other products
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
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- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
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