632 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.