NSW children to learn about agriculture in new program

Agriculture and farming will be incorporated into a new learning program for New South Wales children as part of a federally-backed initiative to teach them about the sector before the age of 12. NSW Farmers Federation President James Jackson told Sky News children across Australia “don’t really understand the food and fibre supply chains”. “Our kids don’t have that uncle on the farm anymore and they don’t go in the school holidays out to a farm so they don’t really understand where their food and fibre comes from." He said getting children out onto farms for hands on experience was more “problematic” now with occupation health and safety standards, but they wanted all NSW children to have an interactive experience in the industry at least twice before they were 12-years-old. “It is an experimental program, there has been some work done by the Primary Industry Foundation of Australia to actually get more mentions of agriculture in the curriculum, but there is nothing like seeing and doing it,” Mr Jackson said.

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