Research shows skills will be crucial to sector success
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Research shows skills will be crucial to sector success
Research shows skills will be crucial to sector success
Labour challenges in agriculture and horticulture and an acceleration in technological developments are fuelling a need for new skills to be part of farmers and growers' future skill sets.
Historically, technology has been a driver for more jobs, rather than less, and research from the University of Warwick suggests this may continue to be the case as agriculture and horticulture continues to evolve.
However, it's clear that regardless of the net impact on the number of jobs in farming and growing moving forward, the skills that workforce use will need to change.
According to the research, there are six key technology areas which are already driving change in the industry:
- Autonomous robots
- Biological pest contreols
- Carbon and green technologies
- Remote sensing
- Big data analytics
- Precision breeding
And while these innovations are already present, the study shows these will play a growing part in the evolution of agriculture and horticulture.
Read more about the findings of the study by downloading the executive summary of the report.
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