Share your feedback on the Proposed NSW Primary Industries Workforce Strategy
2025-2030.

The proposed Strategy aims to generate outcomes that support and build the workforce necessary for delivering profitable, sustainable, and innovative agriculture, forestry and fishing industries in NSW, now and in the future.

The proposed Strategy recommends:

  1. A shared vision for government, industry and stakeholders to work towards.
  2. Three key priority areas for government and industry to concentrate their actions:
    • Improving business management, adaptability and innovation.
    • Fostering a diverse workforce accessible across NSW.
    • Careers and capabilities in primary industries.
  3. A pathway to delivering NSW primary industries workforce outcomes by clearly articulating key actions to guide prioritisation, decision-making and investment by government and stakeholders.

Tell us what you think

Read the Proposed NSW Primary Industries Workforce Strategy 2025-2030 and share your insights and feedback by completing the survey below by Wednesday 30 April 2025.

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Which of the following best describes you? Select all that apply. Required
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About the Proposed NSW Primary Industries Workforce Strategy 2025-2030

The proposed Strategy includes a vision for industry, government and stakeholders to work towards:

'A strong productive primary industries underpinned by a diverse, capable and resilient workforce with access to skills development and employment opportunities and supportive, safe work environments’.

Are you supportive of the vision statement? Required

The proposed Strategy identifies three key priority areas for industry, government and stakeholders to concentrate their actions:

  1. Priority Area 1: Improving business management, adaptability and innovation.
  2. Priority Area 2: Fostering a diverse workforce accessible across NSW.
  3. Priority Area 3: Careers and capabilities in primary industries.
Are you supportive of the three key priority areas? Required
Which of these key priorities are most important to you? Select all that apply.

Priority Area 1

1a. Business practices: Best practice in people management, industrial relations, financial and digital capability, leadership and work, health and safety is prioritised to support business growth, employee success and a sustainable workforce.

1b. Employment incentives: Primary industry businesses increase their capability to attract and retain employees.

1c. Technology and innovation: Increased adoption of new technologies is supported and complemented by the development of an appropriately skilled workforce.

Priority Area 2

2a. An innovative, inclusive and diverse workforce: The primary industries workforce supports participation of employees from diverse backgrounds and demographics.

2b. Regional attraction, liveability and resilience: Attract participation in primary industries by establishing community networks and addressing existing challenges to improve regional liveability.

2c. Regional workforce solutions: There is regional and local capacity and capability to meet the immediate and future primary industries workforce needs.

Priority Area 3

3a. Primary industry in schools: School students see primary industries as a career pathway, offering a diverse range of opportunities.

3b. Primary industry careers and pathways: Careers and employment opportunities in primary industries are widely acknowledged and understood.

3c. Qualifications and skilling: Flexible, responsive and engaging education and training pathways are available to support a capable and resilient primary industries workforce.

Please refer to page 21 of the Proposed NSW Primary Industries Workforce Strategy for more information.

Which of the outcomes are most important to you? Select all that apply. Required
Are you supportive of the proposed actions that underpin the outcomes? Required Please refer to page 21 of the Proposed NSW Primary Industries Workforce Strategy for the list of actions.
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