Mobile farm and forestry plant operators
Mobile farm and forestry plant operators drive, tend, operate and monitor one or more types of special- purpose motorised, mobile machinery or equipment used in agricultural, horticultural and forestry operations.
Skill level: Semi-skilledCheck your pay
- Salary range for the majority of workers in Mobile farm and forestry plant operators - from ₹19,500 to ₹41,506 per month - 2025.
- A Mobile farm and forestry plant operators typically earns between ₹19,500 and ₹59,744 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between ₹21,245 and ₹69,456 per month for a working week of 48 hours.
Salary Checker
Job Responsibilities
- Driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose farm machinery to plough land and sow, fertilize, cultivate and harvest crops
- Driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose forestry machinery to clear land, plant, harvest and carry trees and timber or perform other forestry operations
- Preparing and positioning plant for operation
- Adjusting speed, height and depth of implements
- Operating plant to hold, lift and cut trees
- Operating attachments to lift, swing, release and sort trees and logs, and operating auxiliary plant such as chipping machines and log splitting machines
- Feeding felled trees into processors to strip limbs and cut into logs and loading logs onto stockpiles and into trucks
- Servicing machinery and performing minor repairs