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Duties and Tasks
Agricultural engineers may perform the following tasks: - plan, supervise and manage the building of irrigation, drainage, flood and water control systems
- design, develop and manage the manufacture of agricultural machinery, equipment and instrumentation, such as sensing, measuring and recording devices
- plan and supervise the construction of farm and other related buildings such as controlled environments (e.g. intensively housed livestock, greenhouses, nurseries, aquaculture) and storage facilities (e.g. grain silos and dryers)
- supervise ground preparation, seeding and harvesting, spray technology, post-harvesting (processing and packaging) and transport equipment
- supervise the cleaning, grading, milling, mixing, food processing, packaging and distribution of produce
- perform environmental impact assessments
- analyse, advise and plan for effective soil conservation and the control of water logging and soil salinity
- prepare and present reports
- conduct research and study the results of work on farms, forests and research stations.
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