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As many as 1000 extra forestry workers will be needed every year for the next 20 years, regardless of whether the current wood boom continues, says a 2008 Berl report commissioned by an industry educational body.
Ian Boyd, chief executive of the Forest Industry Training & Education Council (Fitec), is blunt about the sector's future: "The industry desperately requires skilled labour and lots of it."
Quite where all the extra bodies are going to come from is unclear. They don't grow on trees, after all. [ Read the original... ]
Ian Boyd, chief executive of the Forest Industry Training & Education Council (Fitec), is blunt about the sector's future: "The industry desperately requires skilled labour and lots of it."
Quite where all the extra bodies are going to come from is unclear. They don't grow on trees, after all. [ Read the original... ]
