ISCO Unit Group 6320 Subsistence Livestock Farmers
Definition
Subsistence Livestock Farmers: Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and, in some cases, a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
Tasks include -
(a) cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock;
(b) monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical condition;
(c) grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool;
(d) herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies;
(e) raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them;
(f) breeding animals and helping with animal births;
(g) slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale;
(h) carrying out some processing of animal products;
(i) building and maintaining houses and other shelters;
(j) making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household;
(k) fetching water and gathering firewood;
(l) buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Subsistence cattle farmer
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Livestock farm labourer- 9212
- Mixed crop and livestock farm labourer- 9213
- Water and firewood collector- 9624
Notes
Workers in a subsistence setting whose main tasks are fetching water and gathering firewood are classified in Unit Group 9624: Water and Firewood Collectors. Workers in subsistence agriculture who perform a limited range of simple and routine tasks, usually under the direction of others, are classified in the relevant unit group in Sub-major Group 92: Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Labourers.
