What would help build industry skills?
Agriculture’s booming prospects and investment appeal are at risk of stagnating, or going backwards, unless Australia starts training many more people to understand farming.
Investment sector boss, David Goodfellow, says our “capacity problem” is real, and a simple and proactive way to fix it could be a five-year moratorium on tertiary education courses relating to agriculture.
“In my view it’s a no brainer, with zero risk,” said Mr Goodfellow, the Australian chief executive of Canadian-owned investment business AustOn Corporation.
“We just don’t have a pool of talent available to support the growth the ag industry we can see ahead.”
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