Agriculture and Rural Services

The Agriculture industry sector, for educational purposes, has been split into several industry groups. This sector comprises agriculture, beef, dairy, goats, grains, horses, milk harvesting, pigs, poultry, production horticulture, rural merchandising, sheep & wool, and wool harvesting, along with many other niche sectors including commercial composting, beekeeping and organic production.

The three regions conducting the highest number of student contact hours for agricultural and production horticulture training (across all sub-industries) are:

  1. Wimmera
  2. Goulburn
  3. Western District

These comprise about 35% of all student contact hours in training in Victoria in the categories of Agriculture & Production Horticulture, Amenity Horticulture, Animal Care & Management and Seafood & Aquaculture training.

You can reach one of the sub indsutries by following the links below: