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ISCO-08-code:
632
ISCO 08 Code 632 Subsistence livestock farmers
Lead Statement
Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and, tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
Task statement
- Tasks performed usually include cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock;
- monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition;
- grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool;
- herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies;
- raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them;
- breeding animals and helping with animal births;
- slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale;
- carrying out some processing of animal products; building and maintaining houses and other shelters;
- making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household;
- fetching water and gathering firewood; buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
Notes
(NCvB; April 2010)