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O*NET detailed work activityApply chemical solutions to plants to protect against disease or insects or to enhance growth
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs3 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Apply protective solutions or coatings, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 3 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Spray or inject vegetation with insecticides to kill insects or to protect against disease or with herbicides to reduce competing vegetation.
- Apply herbicide to eliminate harmful plants.