Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries The forestry sector continues to provide career opportunities for New Zealanders, with Te Uru Rkau delivering $1.5 million into training and employment projects to help the sector meet labour and skills gaps. Acting Deputy Director General Henry …
The forestry sector continues to provide career opportunities for New Zealanders, with Te Uru Rākau delivering $1.5 million into training and employment projects to help the sector meet labour and skills gaps.
Acting Deputy Director General Henry Weston says the Forestry and Wood Processing Workforce Action Plan, developed in partnership with the sector, identified up to 5000 more forestry and wood processing workers would be required by 2025.
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Bringing next generation into seafood industry
Education is on the minds of industry, the government, and multiple agencies right now and being fuelled by the changing COVID-19 environment.
The seafood industry, backed by co-funding by the government, is actively recruiting New Zealanders into the industry through the Opportunity Grows Here campaign. While this was initiated to encourage those who lost jobs during the pandemic into the industry it is now targeting a much wider audience.
Additionally, work is underway to develop seafood modules to go into the Ag-Business curriculum, which will be a first for the industry.
Separately the Marine Stewardship Council has developed a primary school programme based around sustainable fishing and aquaculture.
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 6:40 am
An initiative giving people an insight into working in
the kiwifruit industry over harvest is about to kick
off.
The initiative – led by New Zealand Kiwifruit
Growers Inc. (NZKGI) and funded by the Ministry for Primary
Industries (MPI) – sets its sights on encouraging
jobseekers to take up employment in the kiwifruit industry
by providing a free harvest taster day for New Zealand
citizens and permanent residents. It follows NZKGI’s
successful winter pruning and summer-work taster programmes
in 2020.
NZKGI Education Co-ordinator Di Holloway says
the kiwifruit industry needs a workforce of more than 23,000
people from March to July.