As a Fruit Production Team Leader, you will need to master following:

• advise customers on storage of fruits and vegetables
• check quality of fruits and vegetables
• coordinate greenhouse environment
• create soil and plant improvement programmes
• crop production principles
• ensure soil fertility
• execute disease and pest control activities
• exert a goal-oriented leadership role towards colleagues
• fruit and vegetable products
• greenhouse types
• grow plants
• harvest crop
• horticulture principles
• load picked fruits and vegetables
• make decisions regarding plant propagation
• monitor fields
• nurse plants
• operate horticulture equipment
• optimise production
• plant disease control
• plant harvest methods
• prepare planting area
• process fruits and vegetables
• quality criteria for storage facilities
• select fruits and vegetables
• soil structure
• store products
• supervise fruit production teams
• supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
• types of storage facilities
• use agricultural information systems and databases
• watering principles

More generally, a fruit production team leader is also versed in:

• environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
• fertilisation principles
• health and safety regulations
• leadership principles
• maintain storage facilities
• make independent operating decisions
• manage contracts
• pest control in plants
• project management principles

It also helps to know the following:

• agricultural business management
• agroecology
• apply sustainable tillage techniques
• assist equipment operation
• budgetary principles
• carry out work related calculations in agriculture
• develop agricultural production plans
• execute fertilisation
• food legislation
• food plant design
• food safety principles
• implement landscaping projects
• manage agricultural staff
• manage agritourism activities
• organic farming
• pack vegetables or fruits
• perform on-farm product processing
• pick orders of agricultural products
• present the farm facilities
• provide agri-touristic services
• select adequate packaging for food products
• use fruit and vegetables processing machinery
• use gardening equipment
• agritourism
• agronomical production principles
• agronomy
• ecology
• handle veterinary emergencies
• keep task records
• maintain technical equipment
• manage production enterprise
• recruit personnel