Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) passed a resolution at its annual meeting back in January to explore the possibility of creating an agricultural trade program that would be offered at an accredited post-secondary institution.
Since then KAP has met with Apprenticeship Manitoba to discuss the idea.
KAP President Dan Mazier says putting together such a program can be a process.
"When a new trade or a new skill is needed in a certain province, you can apply for apprenticeship," he explained. "But there has to be workforce assessments done for all businesses, so you don't develop an apprenticeship program, that a skill could be fit into something else and you don't get a bunch of skilled people that there are no jobs for."
Source : Steinbachonline