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These estimates suggest the industry will need 13,000 entrants in total over the next decade in the South West, around 1,300 people per year on average. However, some NTOs in the sector suggest, that simple forecasts do not account for the fact that the sector is already stretched and has skill shortages. They make higher estimates of recruitment need than these forecasts to catch up on the ‘backlog’ of skills shortage as well as to meet future needs

estimate of net recruitment requirement 1998-2008 (recruits to replace leavers minus jobs lost through productivity increases)

There are a vast range of jobs in the agriculture sector and below is a selection of them

Abattoirs Accountancy Administrative and clerical staff Baking Brewing Catering Chefs Dairy industry Doorstep milk deliveries Driving Engineering maintenance Fish processing and fish mongering Food safety Food scientist Food technology Home economist

Hygiene IT Marketing Milk collection from farms Nutritionist Packing Product designers Production line Purchasing Quality control Restaurants Retail butchering Retail outlets Sales Supervisory management Warehousing

And some of the places you can work include:

Farms Warehouses Breweries Bakeries Local council

Boats Research kitchen Trading Standards Factories Government departments

Dairies Abattoirs Bottling plants Supermarkets Specialist producers